UNHCR columnist: Dino Avdibegović

UNHCR Columnist: Fahrudin Dino Avdibegović. © Privat

Bosnian-Danish writer

Fahrudin Dino Avdibegović is a Bosnian-Danish writer born in the small town of Bosanski Šamac in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992 the war broke out and he fled first to Croatia and then to Czech Republic before coming to Denmark.

He has published a book of poetry "Pathétique" (2006), and a collection of short stories "Sjene zgubljenog vremena" (Shadows of lost time, 2011). Dino is the editor-in-chief for Lacuna Mag, a magazine for writers, poets and columnists from the Western Balkans and its diaspora. He has also written short stories, poems, and articles for several Danish and Bosnian magazines.

Dino's personal website: www.avdibeg.dk
Lacuna Mag: www.lacunamag.org

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UNHCR Columnists 17 February 2012

UNHCR columnist: Dino Avdibegović Fahrudin a Bosnian-Danish writer born in the small town of Bosanski Šamac in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

So, what is my story in Denmark? From time to time I get asked what I knew about Denmark before coming here. I knew that Copenhagen was the nation’s capital and I knew that the peninsula of Jutland links Denmark to the rest of Europe.

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by Fahrudin Dino Avdibegović 10 February 2012

UNHCR photo: Yugoslavia began to break up in mid-1991, when two of the country's six republics declared their independence.

I was a refugee once. From today’s perspective, as the father of two daughters, I am grateful that I was only a seventeen-year-old boy in that time of turmoil, uncertainty and doubts. What I learned back then was that nobody understands a refugee and his situation unless they, too, are one.

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UNHCR columnist: Dino Avdibegović

Bosnian-Danish writer

Part 2: The Journey Never Ends

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"In my own words"