Zlata Filipović
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Zlata Filipović (born 3 December 1980)[1] is the author of the book Zlata's Diary.
From 1991 to 1993, she wrote in her diary (called "Mimmy") about the horrors of war in Sarajevo, through which she was living. Seeing a debatable parallel to Anne Frank, some news agencies and media outlets labelled her the "Anne Frank of Sarajevo".
Unlike Frank, however, Zlata and her family all survived and escaped to Paris in 1993. She attended St. Andrew's College, Dublin senior school, going on to graduate from the University of Oxford in 2001 with a BA in human sciences, and now lives in Dublin, Ireland.
Zlata has continued to write as she wrote the Foreword to The Freedom Writers Diary. She appeared on the talk show Tout le monde en parle on 19 November 2006[1].
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | "Zlata's Diary" | |
| 1999 | "The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them" | Foreword by Zlata Filipović |
| 2004 | "Milosevic: The People's Tyrant" | Preface & translation by Zlata Filipović |
| 2006? | "Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq" | Co-edited by Zlata Filipović |
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[edit] External links
- Irish Times interview with Zlata Filipovic (subscription needed)
- Mother Daughter Book Club, interview with Zlata Filipovic
- Zlata Filipović interview on the Charlie Rose show, March 7, 1994
- Le Journal De Zlata from Zone Libre, Radio Canada, December 19, 2003
