Last night, a Literary evening was held in the Bosnian room of the National University of Konjic, organized by the SIN Neretvice Association in cooperation with the City of Konjic.
At the beginning of the evening, the president of the SIN Neretvica Association, Salih Mustafić, and the coordinator and moderator of the evening, Bajro Perva, welcomed the attendees.
In the program, writers from Konjic and other Bosnia and Herzegovina cities presented their prose and poetic works: Zehra Šljivo, Mirnela Salihović, Suvada Poturović, Azemina Sultanić, Alaga Ajdinović, Šaćir Hrnjica, Ibro Hero, Meliha Hebibović, Ibrahim Turak and Bajro Perva, and the aphoristic Ekrem Macić, Aziz Nuhić and Tarik Jakubović.
“I hope that this Literary Evening was better than all the previous ones and that we slowly “cross over” the Jablanica Lake, that is, the Neretva and give it a wider significance than the local and native” – said Bajro Perva.
“Wonderful experience, it’s a great honor and pleasure for me to be a part of this evening and make my contribution” – said Mirnela Salihović from Visoko.
“A nice literary evening in which amateur poets showed their creativity and I hope the audience had something to hear. A few songs, a little prose, a few anecdotes from our humorists, a nice story and I hope that as part of the “Day of Neretvica” and next year we will have an event like this” – said Ibrahim Turak.
“We had a modest gathering about the written word. There were writers from the area of Konjica, as well as guests that Bajro Perva brought among us so that together, each of us would say something that would interest the audience. I think that such gatherings should take place in a shorter period. Given that we live in a gloomy time, through the poetic part, through the written word, we can return to the normality of life, as it should be” – stated Ibro Hero.
As part of the Literary Evening, a Hommage to the writer Hadžem Hajdarević, who died on December 4, 2023, was held. Bajro Perva, Selman Selhanović and Alija Muminović spoke about their friend and colleague.
“When we say Hadžem Hajdarević, then we have to go through in our heads the great literary and poetic opus of the man’s creativity, who worked tirelessly from the early seventies until ten days ago. Hadžem Hajdarević was a lover of the written word, of the culture of memory, and he left his mark on the time in which he lived, created, and sang. Hadžem sang from the depths of his soul, he loved his Tjentište, Sutjeska, Drina, he loved Bosnia” – said Muminović.
Last night’s event concluded this year’s “Days of Neretvica” manifestation, which, organized by the Native Association for the Protection of Historical Monuments and Cultural Heritage of Neretvica Konjic (SIN Neretvica), included a series of different events: a trip from the confluence to the source of Neretvica, a trip to Velike Vode, traditional way of collecting grass – Kosci in Blazine, Večer bećarca i gange, Kestenijada.
Text source: Radio Konjic, www.radiokonjic.ba
Photo source: Radio Konjic, www.radiokonjic.ba
