Edita Mujkić is an award-winning author and a National Ambassador for the Refugee Council of Australia.
Originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, she has lived in Melbourne, Australia since 1994.
Her first book, Between Before and After, was shortlisted for the international 2024 Memoir Prize from Memoir Magazine, it was the runner-up in the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year 2023 (UK), and was awarded the Bookends Prize for People & Business (UK). In Australia, while writing her memoir, Mujkić won several awards and was shortlisted for others.
In 1992 Edita Mujkić fled war-torn Sarajevo with two young children, in a borrowed car, with two bags and fifty American dollars in her pocket. Her husband, Goran, stayed behind, trapped in the impenetrable siege.
After five months of waiting for Goran in Croatia, Edita and her children moved to Northern England.
Many months went by while Goran’s every attempt to escape failed. Edita knew she had to help him. But how? What could she do with her broken English, without money and contacts, and two children to look after by herself? She explored every option, but every idea seemed fruitless until one day the puzzle pieces started falling into their places.
This moving and compelling true story of courage, love and humanity is a reminder of the difference that the simplest acts of kindness make.
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Between, Before and After
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