Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Materials from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life In Sarajevo

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old [...]

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I Remember Bosnia

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 11, 2007

Bosnia earns independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1992. Since then the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims living there have been fighting. Life in Bosnia is described.

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Teenage Refugees From Bosnia-Herzegovina Speak Out

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Introduces the history and political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and presents young refugees, who describe the reasons why they had to leave, their travels as refugees, and their experiences adjusting to a new country.

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