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Amir Alagić (1977) is a Croatian writer and novelist. Born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina, he has resided in Pula, Croatia since the war broke out in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

He has written two collections of short stories Pod istim nebom (2010) (Under the Same Sky) and Linije koje ti nazivaš rijekama (2019) (The Lines You Call Rivers), three novels Osvetinje (2016) (The Revengers) and Stogodišnje djetinstvo(2017) (A Hundred Year Childhood), Tuneli (The Tunnels) published in September 2019. Some of his short stories are translated in French and an excerpt from his novel A Hundred Year Childhood in English. Some of his short stories have been published in Italian and English.

He has also written and directed a short film Poigravanja ili pokvareni bojler (2012) (Fooling Around or the Broken Boiler).

Croatian literary critic Božidar Alajbegović described him as a writer rich in talent, imagination and stylistic elegance, an expert in the creation of composite narrative structures, capable of giving meaning to plots with a strong emotional charge. According to Alajbegović, “Amir Alagić is, with Kristian Novak and Luka Bekavac, the most interesting writer who appeared in Croatia in the 2000s”.

Works
Pod istim nebom, Edicija Katapult / Zigo, Rijeka, 2010.

Osvetinje Duriex, Zagreb 2016.

Stogodišnje djetinstvo, Duriex, Zagreb 2017.

Linije koje ti nazivaš rijekama, Duriex, Zagreb 2019.

Tuneli, Duriex, Zagreb 2019