Sarajevo war 1992 zlata filipovic biography

Zlata Filipović (born (1980-12-03)3 December 1980) is a Bosnian-born Irish woman who kept a diary documenting life in Sarajevo, when it was besieged, during the Bosnian War. Her diary was first published as a book in 1992 under the title Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo (originally Dnevnik Zlatin: Dječij život u Sarajevu in Bosnian). The diary was republished one year later with more content in 1993.

Thanks to the publication of her diary, the United Nations helped Filipović and her mother leave Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and move to Paris, France, in December 1993.

Biography

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Zlata Filipović was born into a Bosnian family in the city of Sarajevo, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). Filipović was the only child of an advocate and a chemist. She began writing in her diary in 1991, writing about her daily life. Shortly after Filipović began writing the diary, t