Adnan Mahmutović

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Adnan Mahmutović came to Sweden from Bosnia as a war refugee in the 1990s. He lectures at Stockholm University in literature and creative writing and has published two novels, Thinner Than a Hair and At the Feet of Mothers; a short-story collection, How to Fare Well and Stay Fair; and several volumes of literary studies.

My Hajj

November 2023
Adnan Mahmutović
Photos by Yousef Khanfar | www.yousefkhanfar.comThe tears, the rituals: a family goes on a journey and joins millions of strangers pouring into Mecca. In this moving essay, a writer evokes the beauty,…
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Trivas with Words

Summer 2021
Adnan Mahmutović
Photo by Natalya Y. on Unsplash A Bosnian Swedish writer considers how extreme nuances and barely perceptible differences, which signify no change in the core meaning of a word, still evoke conno…
Where Do We Go Now with Quo Vadis, Aida?

March 18, 2021 Adnan Mahmutović
Jasna Đuričić, in her role as Aida Selmanagic, from Jasmila Zbanic's film, Quo vadis, Aida? (2020) A war refugee from Bosnia now living, writing, and teaching in Sweden reviews Quo…
At the Feet of Mothers by Adnan Mahmutović

Adnan Mahmutović
Blaenau-Ffestiniog, UK. Cinnamon Press. 2020. 250 pages. AT THE FEET OF MOTHERS, a Qur’anic trope for paradise, seems initially unrelated to smart but naïve, one-eye…
Surprised by Handke

October 17, 2019 Adnan Mahmutović
Photo by Peter Tandlund / Flickr A Bosnian refugee of war now living, teaching, and writing in Stockholm considers the Swedish Academy’s selection for the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, Peter Ha…
Comics, War, and Ordinary Miracles

May 2015
Adnan Mahmutović, Lucy Durneen
After meeting at a short-fiction conference, Adnan Mahmutović and Lucy Durneen began talking to one another about his childhood love of comics and his efforts to preserve them during the Bosnian…
How to Fare Well and Stay Fair by Adnan Mahmutović

Adnan Mahmutović
Cromer, England. Salt. 2012. ISBN 9781907773280 Whereas much exile literature foregrounds educated urbanites voicing nostalgia for lost cultures, Adnan Mahmutović portrays Bosnian villagers who renoun…