(15 May 2017) Writer and essayist, born in Bosnia, but with a special relationship with Italy. Predrag Matvejevic, who passed away last February, is hosting an exhibition in Sarajevo that will be inaugurated on May 18 at the delegation of the European Commission in Sarajevo in the presence of the Italian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nicola Minasi. The exhibition, open to the public until 31 May, is organised by the Dante Alighieri Committee in Sarajevo and focuses on the life and works of one of the most important and most widely translated editorialist in the Balkans and Europe. The exhibition consists of photographic panels featuring his works, and important moments of the writer's life. Important figures in the field of literature will participate in the opening night and emblematic songs will be recited by an actor. (Red)

PREDRAG MATVEJEVIC

Predrag Matvejevic, born in Mostar, in ex-Yugoslavia - now Bosnia and Herzegovina - was a lecturer in literature at the universities of Zagreb, Paris, and Rome. He is best known for his essay on the 1987 Mediterranean Breviary - the founding work of the cultural history of the Mediterranean region - which has been translated into over twenty languages.