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Selma Kopić
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Selma Kopić is a professor of
Bosnian language and literature, born
in 1962 in Tuzla, Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
She is the author of two
textbooks and one workbook for
primary school. She has worked and is
working as a coach, reviewer,
proofreader...
Her stories and poems have been awarded and entered anthologies
in BiH and around the world. The most significant awards are:
• Third prize "Mak Dizdar" for unpublished collection of poems
"Puzzle", BiH, 2008;
• Golden Plaque, "Poetry of the Year 2020", Balkan Poetry Union,
BiH, 2021;
• First prize for a triptych of love poems at the "Poem above poems"
competition, BiH 2021;
• First prize for the best foreign song "I'm not ready to leave yet",
Italy, 2020.
She has published three independent books of poetry:
• ''Znak'' ('' The Sign ''), PrinCom Tuzla,
• '' The Monument of Love'', Poetry Planet Publishing House,
Philippines,
• '' Slagalica '' (''The Puzzle''), Darwish Publishing and Translation
House, Germany
• and the joint collection ‘‘ Cosmic Rainbow ’’ India, with five other
authors.
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