Professor Fahrudin Rizvanbegović, PhD, is a retired full professor in the Department of Literatures of the Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo.

He was born in Stolac on February 4, 1945. He studied and graduated in 1968 from the South Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature program at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he defended his master’s thesis, The Literary Work of Hamid Dizdar, in 1982, and his doctoral dissertation, The Narrative Prose of Skender Kulenović, in 1986. His field of scholarly research is literary history and literary criticism, primarily related to Bosniak literature, with particular emphasis on synthesizing and individually analyzing travel writing within Bosniak literature. He has published three authored books (The Lights of the Divanhana: The Narrative Prose of Skender Kulenović, 1990; The Literary Work of Hamid Dizdar, 2004; The Silence and Solitude of the Text, 2004), one textbook (Reader for the First Year of Gymnasium, 1994), and over one hundred various contributions in a range of literary and academic journals and other relevant publications (Život, Sarajevo; Most, Mostar; Danas, Zagreb; Rival, Rijeka; Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia…), and has prepared several selected editions of works by Bosniak authors, a selection of criticism (Bosniak Literature in Literary Criticism, Book 6, 1998, with Enes Duraković), and two anthologies (Anthology of Bosniak Travel Writing of the 20th Century, 1997; Anthology of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Drama of the 20th Century, 2000, with Gordana Muzaferija and Vojislav Vujanović). He has presented papers at numerous scholarly conferences.

He was a member of numerous editorial boards of literary journals and editions, as well as a member of the first editorial board of the Bosniak Literature in 100 Books library. He was one of the re-founders of the Cultural Society of Bosniaks “Preporod,” where he served as a member of the first Main and Executive Boards and of the Council, as well as a member of the Council of the Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals. He was a longtime president of the “Slovo Gorčina” cultural event in Stolac. From 1996 to 2000, he served as Minister of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports in the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1979 to 1993, he worked as a professor at the Pedagogical Academy of the “Džemal Bijedić” University in Mostar, where he also served as vice-dean and dean. After a six-month imprisonment in the Dretelj concentration camp during the agression on Bosnia and Herzegovina, he came to Sarajevo, where in 1994 he was elected associate professor in Bosniak literature in the Department of Literatures of the Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Faculty of Philosophy, and in 2004 he was promoted to full professor in the same field. At the Faculty of Philosophy, he also served as vice-dean and acted as mentor, chair, and member of committees for the preparation and defense of numerous master’s theses and doctoral dissertations.