Nadja halilbegovich biography

Book by Nadja Halilbegovich

My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary is the Bosnian War diary of the speaker and peace activist Nadja Halilbegovich. The journal was written when Nadja was between ages 12 and 16 and documents the war and Siege of Sarajevo from 1992-1995. The diary was originally published in Bosnia by the humanitarian organization Our Children in two parts: Sarajevsko Djetinjstvo Ratom Ranjeno (Sarajevo Childhood Wounded by War)^[1] in 1994 and Sarajevsko Djetinjstvo Ratom Ranjeno: Drugi Dio (Sarajevo Childhood Wounded by War: Part 2)^[2] in 1998. The abridged diary was published in English under the current title by Kids Can Press in the U.S. and Canada in 2006. It has also been published in French in 2007 and Indonesian in 2008. The book chronicles four years of war seen through the eyes of a child and teenager.

Awards

My Childhood Under Fire has received the following recognitions:

• Winner of Books for the Teen Age List from the New York Public Library 2007
• Best Book Award in Social Studies by the Society of School Librarians International 2006
• Bronze Medal Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award 2007
• Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Nonfiction Literature 2006 Nominee
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Nadja was twelve years old when the war broke out in her native country Bosnia. Throughout the next three and a half years, she and all the citizens of the capital Sarajevo suffered from continuous shelling and the deprivation of basic needs. In 1992, Nadja was wounded by a bombshell. She still has several pieces of shrapnel in her legs. During the war, Nadja began sharing her poetry and diary entries on the National Radio. Soon, she had her own radio show called The Music Box. At fourteen, Nadja’s diary was published in Bosnia. She became known as the Bosnian Anne Frank and The National Dutch Television created a documentary about her life.  

In 1995, Nadja escaped the war and came to live in the United States. In the summer that year the sequel to her diary titled Dreamer’s Insomnia was published in Bosnia. She continued to speak and share her experiences around the world at events such as The Global Young Leaders Conference, The State of the World Forum and many others. Nadja was featured in the Jackie Waldman’s Courage to Give, Eric Walters’ When Elephants Fight and Michael Collopy’s Architects of Peace, along with the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela. 

Nadja was recognized by her school, Butler University, with the first ever Woman