Hamza Humo (30 December 1895 – 19 January 1970) was a Bosnian

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, dramatist, and writer of short novels. His nephew

Avdo Humo Avdo Humo (1 February 1914 – 24 January 1983) was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician, writer and an Order of the People's Hero recipient. Humo held highest positions in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1972, Hum ...

was a

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in Yugoslavia.

Early life

Humo was born on 30 December 1895 in

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into a

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family . He finished elementary school, gymnasium and maktab in Mostar. At the beginning of the

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, Humo was drafted into the Austrian army, since Bosnia and Herzegovina had been part of

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for over 30 years at that point. He served as an interpreter and clerk in a hospital, in Győr, Hungary.

Writing

After the war, he returned to Mostar, and enrolled at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Art History. His life path later took him to

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, then to Belgrade. Humo's first published work was ''Nutarnji život'' (''Inner Life'') in 1919. He became the editor of ''Zabavnik'' in 1923. Humo also served as an editor for the magazine ''

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'' from 1923 until 1931.

Later life

Humo spent

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in the village Cim by Mostar. From 1945 he regulated the Bosniak newspaper ''Nova doba'' (''New Age''), and subsequently worked as an editor of Radio Sarajevo and Director of the Art Gallery.

Bibliography

*''Nutarnji život'' (1919) *''Strasti'' (1923) *''Grad rima i ritmova'' (1924) *''Sa ploča istočnih'' (1925) *''Grozdanin kikot'' (1927) *''Pod žrvnjem vremena'' (1928) *''Od prelaza na Islam do novih vidika'' (1928) *''Slučaj Raba slikara'' (1930) *''Pripovijetke'' (1932) *''Ljubav na periferiji'' (1936) *''Zgrada na ruševinama'' (193) *''Za Tita'' (1946) *''Pjesme'' (1946) *''Hasan opancar'' (1947) *''Adem Čabrić'' (1947) *''Poema o Mostaru'' (1949) *''Tri svijeta'' (1951) *''Perišićeva ljubav'' (1952) *''Izabrane pjesme'' (1954) *''Hadžijin mač'' (1955) *''Sabrana djela'' (1976) *''Jablan do neba'' (1980) *''Izbor iz djela'' (1982)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Humo, Hamza 1895 births 1970 deaths Writers from Mostar 20th-century poets Bosniak writers Bosniak poets Yugoslav writers Yugoslav poets Bosnia and Herzegovina writers Bosnia and Herzegovina poets