Rifet Bahtijaragic
He was born on 7 January 1946 in the small mountain town of Bosanski Petrovac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He finished his university studies fourteen years before the Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games, and during those years worked in two separate fields: as a specialist in economic development for state banks and companies, to make his daily bread; and as a writer of journalism, poetry, stories, essays and novels, to earn sustenance for his soul.