Occupation Writer Name Abdulah Sidran | Role Writer | |
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Books Tears of the Mothers of Srebrenica Nominations European Film Award for Best Screenwriter Movies and TV shows When Father Was Away on, Do You Remember Dolly Bell?, The Perfect Circle, (A)Torzija, Aleksa Santic Similar People Emir Kusturica, Ademir Kenovic, Mesa Selimovic, Slobodan Aligrudic, Miki Manojlovic | ||
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Abdulah Sidran (born 9 September 1944), often referred to by his hypocoristic nickname Avdo, is a Bosnian writer and poet who is renowned for his screenplays and dramas. He is best known for writing the Oscar-nominated When Father Was Away on Business and Do You Remember Dolly Bell?.
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- Early life and family
- Personal life
- Works
- References
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Early life and family
Abdulah Sidran, the second of four children, was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 2 October 1944, although several sources inaccurately give his date of birth as 29 September 1944. His parents were Muslims and ethnic Bosniaks; father Mehmed (1915–1965) was born in Kiseljak and worked as a locksmith at a railway workshop, while his mother Behija (née Jukić) was a housewife. Sidran has three siblings Ekrem (born 1942; deceased), Nedim (born 4 February 1947) and Edina (born 1953). He was named after his paternal uncle, a typographer and compositor, who perished in 1943 at the Jasenovac concentration camp. The Sidran family roots trace back to the hamlet Biograd near Nevesinje. Abdulah's paternal grandfather Hasan Sidran relocated to Sarajevo from Biograd in 1903.
Personal life
Sidran graduated from University of Sarajevo. Sidran spent the entirety of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. After spending most of his life in Sarajevo, Sidran lived in Goražde before moving to a small village near Tešanj where he currently lives.
Sidran made regional headlines in January 2015 when he claimed that his former friend and director Emir Kusturica in fact died defending Sarajevo during the war in 1994 and was replaced by a Serb doppelganger named Pantelija Milisavljević. Kusturica is an ethnic Bosniak who began self-identifying as a Serb during the war of the 1990s. In response to the claims, Kusturica called Sidran a "soulful bum".
Works
His major works include Šahbaza, Bone and meat, The Sarajevo tomb (Sarajevski tabut), Why is Venice sinking (Zašto tone Venecija), several books of poetry, and screenplays for award-winning movies from the Former Yugoslavia, such as the Oscar-nominated When Father Was Away on Business and Do You Remember Dolly Bell?, directed by Emir Kusturica; and Kuduz and The Perfect Circle, directed by Ademir Kenović. His opus is characterized by a soft and soothing sensibility, where tragedy, meditativity and a specific and humorous irony change sides and play tricks on each other more often than not. Ted Hughes and Antonela Glavinic translated two of his poems originally published in Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia, edited by Chris Agee(Bloodaxe, 1998), Gavrilo and A Blind Man Sings To His City, and republished in Ted Hughes' book Selected Translations (2006, Faber).