Amir Bukvić

Amir Bukvić (born 1951 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian actor, documentarist, playwright, screenwriter and novelist. His works have been awarded the most prestigious literary awards in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, namely the “Alija Isaković Award” and the Marin Držić Award, and included in anthologies.

Career Bukvić was born in 1951 in Sarajevo, in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. He went on to graduate in acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. currently living and working in Zagreb, where he became a member of the Croatian National Theater.

Early on in his acting career, his roles in theatre included playing Shakespeare's Hamlet, Trepliov in Chekhov's The Seagull and Gregers in Ibsen's The Wild Duck. Karmine in 1978, a drama by the Croatian film, theater and television director Ivan Hetrich, Sudite me in 1978, directed by Ivan Hetrich on the script by Nedjeljko Fabri, Prijeđi rijeku ako možeš in 1977, a TV drama directed by Petar Veček written on the basis of true events from life of couple of drug addicts, and in which Bukvić partnered with Mira Furlan in the leading roles.

He is the author of number of plays and novels, and also authored several documentaries for the foreign producers and screenplays for feature films and television.

His drama Children of CNN (original in ) was made into a feature film, which he co-written with his daughter Aida, who also directed it. The film featured at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2022.

Diplomatic and administrative engements In 1994, Bukvić was appointed the cultural attaché at the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Zagreb, and the director of the first Cultural Center of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the world, which he opened in Zagreb on the initiative of the representatives of international community in the region and the Bosnian embassy. and awarded him biannual award the “Alija Isaković Award” twice. He also received the Marin Držić Award twice, for the drama Aristotle in Baghdad and for the drama Who Tore Down the Berlin Wall. In 2010, BH Radio 1 awarded him the first prize for the best original radio drama "Novo vrijeme".

Essays Zapis o Bosni: literarno-poetski mozaik iz BiH [Record of Bosnia: literary and poetic mosaic from Bosnia and Herzegovina]

Novels Odgovor Malog Princa, Zagreb, 2004 Aristotel u Bagdadu, Zagreb, 2006 Rastanak, Zagreb, 2011

Stories Ljubavne priče, (collection of stories), 2018

Plays Stanovnici sna, 1981 Homo novus, 1986 Drame (Stanovnici sna, Homo Novus, Nepredvidiv slučaj, Dan jednog leptira, Disident), (collection of plays), Sarajevo, 1991 Šalom u Toledu, 1999 Svemirsko putovanje malog princa, 2003 Djeca sa CNN-a, 2005 Ko je srušio Berlinski zid, 2009

Radio drama Novo vrijeme, Sarajevo, 2010