Lejla Kalamujić

Lejla Kalamujić was born in 1980 in Sarajevo. She graduated in Philosophy and Sociology from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. She is the author of the short story collections Anatomy of a Smile (2008), Call Me Esteban (2015), and Hurry Up and Invent a City (2021). In 2015, she won the “Edo Budiša” Award for the best regional collection of short stories for her book Call Me Esteban. The book Hurry Up and Invent a City received the regional literary prize “Štefica Cvek.” In addition to her stories, she has also published three theater plays in a book titled Hands Full of Clouds (2020). Plays from this collection, “The Cannibal or How I Killed My Family” and “Turn Off the Light”, were staged at the Bosnian National Theater in Zenica. Her stories and plays have been translated into several languages.