Writer and journalist: 46 years since the death of Hamza Humo

It has been 46 years since the death of Hamza Humo, one of the greatest Bosnian-Herzegovinian writers and journalists, writes the Bosnian news agency Patria.

Humo was born on December 30, 1895 in Mostar, where he attended mekteb, primary school and high school. In 1914, he was arrested and transferred to Hungary (Komárom), and in 1915 he was mobilized into the Austrian army. Until the end of the war, he served as a clerk and interpreter in a hospital in Vienna. After the war, he returned to Mostar and graduated from high school, then went to study art history in Zagreb, then Vienna, and finally Belgrade.

From 1923, Humo was the editor of the magazine Zabavnik, and from 1923 to 1931, he was the editor of the magazine Gajret, and then until the war, a journalist for Politika.

He spent World War II in Cim near Mostar. From 1945, he edited the Bosniak newspaper Novo doba, after which he was the editor of Radio Sarajevo and director of the Art Gallery.

They say that Humo worked most during the period between the two world wars. During that time, he published several poetry books and his most famous and significant work, the lyrical novel "Grozdanin kikot" (1927), which would see multiple editions and be translated into many languages.

Hamza Humo died in Sarajevo on January 19, 1970. Today in Bosnia and Herzegovina, many streets and schools bear his name, writes Patria.