Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić

Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić (6 December 1932 – 22 September 1995) was a Bosnian children's author and poet. Her first children's book, Maskenbal u šumi ("Maskerade in the Woods"), was published in 1962.

She has won awards for her works, and after death her house was declared a national monument, she was memorialised as a stamp.

Biography She was born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina; then Yugoslavia on 6 December 1931. Her father, Hadžić Ali Effendi Kapidžić, was an senior Imam in Royal Yugoslav Army. As a little girl she had leg surgery and wore a cast, rendering her bedridden. Six-year-old Nasiha began writing for the first time during her recovery.

She attended elementary and high school in Banja Luka and moved to Belgrade to study at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy, where she earned her academic degree. She later taught at Banja Luka Gymnasium and was a radio producer for children shows on Radio Sarajevo. She would go on to write poems, stories and plays, some of which have been translated to other languages, others have become set texts for schools. She was survived by her daughter, Aida.

On 15 April 1996 a national stamp was issued in her honour. A stairway, decorated with poems of seven writers featuring Kapidžić-Hadžić was opened in 2013.

Kapidžić House Kapidžić-Hadžić childhood home was recognised as a National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina and given protected status in the country for its links to the author. There is a memorial with the poem, Vezeni most ("Embroidered Bridge") at the home. Kapidžić-Hadžić's father bought it in 1920 from Muhamed Bey Kulenović.