Ćamil Sijarić
Ćamil Sijarić (18 December 1913 – 6 December 1989) was a Yugoslavian novelist and short story writer. He enrolled in law school in 1936 and earned his degree four years later. Sijarić died in a car crash at the age of 75. Life. He was born in Šipovice, near Bijelo Polje, in the Kingdom of Montenegro, to Muslim parents. He was of Albanian origin on his mothers side, and he considered Albanian to be native to him. Both of his parents died while he was a child. He was raised thereafter by his aunts and uncles. Sijarić enrolled in  the University of Belgrade's Law School and earned his degree in 1940. He was both a member of Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Academy of Arts and Sciencies of Bosnia and Herzegovina. His first literary work was "Ram-Bulja" (1953), which he first wrote in Albanian but then later translated and first it in published Serbian. It was thereafter re-translated into Albanian shortly after because, according to Sijarić, the characters there themselves can be seen as Albanians. His most acclaimed work is the novel "Bihorci" (1955). He spent most of his life in Skopje, Belgrade and  later, Sarajevo, where he died in a car accident in 1989. However, almost all his major works are about Montenegro and the Bihor region around Bijelo Polje. His works have been translated in more than a dozen languages, including Russian, German and French. Sijarić perished in a car crash in Sarajevo, shortly before his 76th birthday in December 1989. Not long before his death, Sijarić wrote a poem called "Znam" ("I Know"), which appears to show him foreshadowing his own death: Bibliography. Some of his most important works are