Gojko Berić

Gojko Berić
Born (1939-04-15) 15 April 1939
Occupationjournalist
NationalityBosnian
Notable worksPisma nebeskom narodu (2000)

Gojko Berić (Serbian Cyrillic: Гојко Берић; born 15 April 1939), is a Bosnian journalist, long-time columnist for the daily Oslobođenje. The oldest active journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]

Biography

He was born in 1939 in Donji Vrbljani near Ključ. He grew up in Mostar, where he graduated from junior gimnasium and the Mechanical Engineering Technical School. As a journalist Berić started to write in high school. His professional career started in 1962 at newspaper Sloboda in Mostar. He was a correspondent for Oslobođenje from Mostar and Dubrovnik, and then a columnist for this newspaper for many years.[2][3][4][5][6]

Berić has won a number of journalists awards and was named Journalist of the Year in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. He is the recipient of the Sixth of April Sarajevo Award of the City of Sarajevo in 2001. The book Pisma nebeskom narodu was declared the Book of the Year in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000 by the Bosna International Forum. Also, he received Oslobođenje Lifetime Achievement Award 30 August and Oslobođenje Award for the greatest professional achievement (2003). In 2008, he won Lifetime Achievement Award of the Journalists' Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[7][8]

He lives and works in Sarajevo.[9]

Works

  • Smrt u ljetnom Dubrovniku (Sarajevo, 1985)
  • Sarajevo na kraju svijeta (Sarajevo, 1994)
  • Pisma nebeskom narodu (Sarajevo, 2000)
  • Stanica Haag (Sarajevo, 2005)
  • Zvijeri na okupu (Sarajevo, 2006)
  • Zbogom XX. stoljeće: sjećanja Ive Vejvode (Zagreb, 2013)
  • Šta je život bez dušmana (Sarajevo, 2019)
  • Dodir časne sestre (Sarajevo-Zagreb, 2024)

References

  1. ^ Boro Kontić (2024). "Gojko". Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Gojko Berić". Profil. 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  3. ^ Jasmina Huremović (2019). "Gojko Berić, najpoznatiji i najpriznatiji kolumnista o svojoj knjizi "Šta je život bez dušmana?"". RTV7. Archived from the original on 2023-11-07. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  4. ^ D.N.K. (2019). "Čitajte danas: Gojko Berić, ogoljen do gole kože". Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  5. ^ mostarski (2019). "Promocija knjige "Dodir časne sestre" Gojka Berića u Centru za kulturu Mostar". Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  6. ^ bhrt.ba (2019). "U Mostaru promovirana knjiga "Dodir časne sestre" Gojka Berića". Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  7. ^ tačno.net (2019). "Promocija knjige Gojka Berića "Šta je život bez dušmana?" u Mostaru". Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  8. ^ fokus.ba (2019). "Predstavljena knjiga kolumni "Šta je život bez dušmana" autora Gojka Berića". Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  9. ^ Gojko Berić (2019). "Two sieges, two experiences". Retrieved 7 November 2023.