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Ćopić (Ћопић) Branko
(1915—1985)

Branko Ćopić was a Bosnian Serb writer. His books have been translated into English, German, French, and Russian. Ćopić was born in the village of Hašani, Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His children's stories, novels, narratives, and poetry touched the lives of many. Undoubtedly, he was a cult writer to many growing up in Tito's Yugoslavia, and has been unjustifiably sidelined by literary historians since the country's break-up due to his decided and open commitment to the idea of Yugoslavism. Although he lived in Belgrade most of his life, his characters (mainly children and young people) and his stories and novels were inspired by his Bosnia and his childhood there, its nature and peaceful, proud, smart and bright people during World War II, partisans and revolution, all seen from a childish, but intelligent, highly emotional and humorious point of view. As a disappointed communist, Yugoslav, and humanist, he committed suicide by jumping off a bridge in Belgrade after writing a preamble to one of his last books in which he predicted the rise of xenophobic nationalism in the Balkans and its terrifying consequences.

Bosnia & Herzegovina (Serb administration), 1997, Branko Ćopić