Mensur Demir is an architect, muralist, painter, and illustrator. He began as a graffiti artist in Munich in 1996 and has been painting on walls and canvases in Sarajevo since 1998. He teaches architectural design and drawing, and writes essays and reviews for the magazine Oris. With Dževad Karahasan he created a performative drawing show, making a live illustration of a literary reading for the opening of the 2014 culture festival Šta ima!? in Munich. He designed the recently opened War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo. (updated 10/2017)
Mirza Purić is a literary translator working from German and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian. He is a contributing editor of EuropeNow and in-house translator for the Sarajevo Writers’ Workshop. From 2014 to 2017 he was an editor-at-large for Asymptote. He has published several book-length translations into BCMS, including Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases, Michael Köhlmeier’s Idylle mit ertrinkendem Hund, and Rabih Alameddine’s The Hakawati. His translations into English have appeared in Asymptote, H.O.W., EuropeNow, AGNI, PEN America, and elsewhere. Next year Archipelago Books will release his co-translation, with Ellen Elias-Bursac, of Miljenko Jergovic’s story collection Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah. (updated 10/2018)