Abdulah Sidran

Abdulah Sidran
Абдулах Сидран
Born(1944-10-02)2 October 1944
Sarajevo, Independent State of Croatia
(modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Died23 March 2024(2024-03-23) (aged 79)
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
OccupationPoet and screenwriter
GenrePoetry, prose, script

Abdulah Sidran (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Абдулах Сидран; 2 October 1944 – 23 March 2024) was a Bosnian poet and screenwriter. He is considered to be one of the most influential writers in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia.

Sidran is best known for writing the 1993 poetry book Sarajevski tabut ("The Coffin of Sarajevo"), as well as the scripts for Emir Kusturica's films Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) and the Academy Award nominated When Father Was Away on Business (1985). He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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