izzet saraylic

• ^*1930 dogumlu bosnak yazar. 95'te sirp kusatmasi sirasinda feci bir sekilde yaralanmisti. tito zamaninda yugoslav yazarlar sendikasinin baskaniymis. ama komunist partiden ihrac edilince, sendikadan da atilmis. elestirmenler kendisinin brecht yalinliginda yazdigi icin takdire sayan oldugunu buyuruyorlar.
  
  inheritance
  
  our ancestors left us as inheritance
  schönbrunns,
  winter palaces,
  karls bridges,
  san marco squares,
  and i do not even mention
  gigantic west minster palaces
  and neither
  the dramas of shakespeare,
  the novels of tolstoy,
  the suite no. 3 of bach,
  
  but what shall we
  leave our descendants
  as inheritance?
  
  snack-bars,
  petrol pumps,
  garages,
  
  and one or another anti-novel
  
  necrology of the nightingale
  
  for jochen kelter
  
  robert burns had it easy:
  he lights a candle,
  opens the window
  and accompanied by the nightingale
  he writes
  “she is as dear to me as a rosebud”
  
  but we,
  as things go,
  shall only be able
  to hear the nightingale’s song
  on a tape-recorder.
  
  if that tuesday i had died in berlin
  neues deutschland would announce that a yugoslav
  writer of the middle generation
  suddenly died of a heart attack, while i - and this is
  not just idle talk -
  need to croak on my native soil.
  you can see how good it is that i didn't die
  and that i'm once again among you?
  you can whistle, you can applaud.
  you see how good it is that i didn't die,
  and that i'm once again among you all.
• 1997’de tuna kiremitçi ile "erguvan balkan şiir ödülü"nü paylaşan bosna doğumlu şair.