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Edita Mujkic

Author of Memoir and Biography

based in VIC

Edita Mujkić is an award-winning author and a National Ambassador for the Refugee Council of Australia.

Originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, she has lived in Melbourne, Australia since 1994.

Her first book, the memoir Between Before and After, is the winner of several international awards: shortlisted for the international 2024 Memoir Prize from Memoir Magazine, runner-up in the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year 2023 (UK) and awarded the Bookends Prize for People & Business (UK). In Australia, while writing her memoir, Mujkić won the 2017 Varuna Mentorship Award, while excerpts of her book were shortlisted for the 2020 Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story and longlisted for the 2016 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. In 2016, she was a runner-up in the Deborah Cass Writing Prize.

"Every book teaches us something - if not in a global way, about the world near and far, then about ourselves - who we are, what we like, where we belong, what we might become if we strive for it ... The list of values reading provides is literally endless."

Local Area

VIC

Frankston & Mornington Peninsula, Geelong, Melbourne

Event Types

Reading Workshop Panel guest Keynote speech Primary school visit Secondary school visit

Genre

Memoir and Biography

Age Groups

Adults

Themes

Love and relationships Friendship Family Identity and belonging Refugees and political asylum Migration Social justice

This author holds a Working with Children Check (WWCC).

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