Elvir Karabasic

ABOUT ELVIR KARABAŠIĆ

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Short, and in my own words.

I was born on November 5th 1988, in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. My parents divorced shortly after my birth, and during the war time in ‘92 I lived with my mother and grandparents in a small house in Holland. We returned to Bosnia (Sanski Most) in 1999 where I have been living ever since. I got my High school Diploma (School of Electrotechnics) in 2007 and because of financial reasons, (as well as poor health at the time) I never went to college.

I discovered the importance of books in my mid twenties, which sounds ridiculous even as I write it, but I had always been otherwise engaged, (in high school I wasn’t interested in anything of the sort) until something made me buy George Orwell’s 1984...

I started writing ‘Nothing’ in September 2016 and I have to mention that even though I had a lot of influences, the biggest ones are: George Orwell, the New Orleans sludge metal band Crowbar, and life