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Predrag Finci
Birth Place:	Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Era:	20th-/21st-century philosophy
Region:	Western philosophy
Main Interests:	Aesthetics, ontology
Influences:	Plato, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Dostoyevsky, Rilke, Heidegger, Adorno, Blanchot, Wittgenstein

Predrag Finci (born 5 August 1946) is a Bosnian–British philosopher, author, and essayist.

Biography

Predrag Finci started his career as an actor.^[1] In 1968 Finci played the role of Gavrilo Princip in the film Sarajevski atentat^[2] directed by Fadil Hadžić. Later he studied philosophy at the University of Sarajevo and at the under Mikel Dufrenne. He was a visiting researcher at the Freiburg University under the supervision of Werner Marx. He completed his MA in 1977 and PhD in philosophy in 1981. He was a professor of aesthetics at the University of Sarajevo until 1993 when, during the Bosnian war, he left Sarajevo for London. He has lived there since, and worked as a freelance interpreter and writer until his retirement in 2011.

Work

Finci's work is based on a combination of erudition, philosophical and aesthetical insights, and personal experience.^[3] Finci writes extensively in his native language and also in English. Reviews^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]} of Finci's books have been published in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia. He was an honorary visiting fellow at University College London from 1999 to 2013. Predrag Finci is a member of Exiled Writers Ink!^[10] in London. He is a founder-member of Bosnian P.E.N.^[11] He is a member of the Croatian Philosophical Society.^[12] He received the Svjetlost Publisher Award in 1980 and the Veselin Maslesa Publisher Award in 1986.^[13] In 2011 he received the Science Award for his book Imaginacija (Imagination) at the 23rd International Book Fair, Sarajevo.^[14]

Bibliography

In English:

• Applause, and then Silence, with an Introduction by Moris Farhi, Style Writers Now, 2012,
• Why I Killed Franz Ferdinand and Other Essays, with an Introduction by Cathi Unsworth, Style Writers Now, 2014,

Published in Bosnia:

• Govor prepiski (Discourse of Correspondence), Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1980,
• Umjetnost i iskustvo egzistencije (Art and Experience of Existence), Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1986,
• Ishodište pitanja (The Source of Question), Glas, Banja Luka, 1987, OCLC 23869495
• O nekim sporednim stvarima (On Some Secondary Matters), Veselin Maslesa, Sarajevo,1990,
• Sarajevski zapisi (Sarajevo's Notes), Buybook, Sarajevo 2004,
• Poetozofski eseji (Poetosophic Essays), Medjunarodni centar za mir, Sarajevo, 2004,
• O kolodvoru i putniku (About Stations and Travellers), Motrišta, Mostar, 2013, ISSN 1512-5475; IK Rabic, Sarajevo 2015, Translated into Hebrew and published by Carmelph.co.il, 2019 Translated into Italian and published in Italy La stazione e il viaggiatore, Ass. Culturale Il Foglio, 2022
• Kratka, a tužna povijest uma (A Short But Sad History of Mind), IKB Rabic, Sarajevo, 2016. COBIS: BH-ID 22956550
• Elektronička špilja (The Electronic Cave), Art Rabic, Sarajevo, 2017. COBISS.BH.ID 23983110
• O književnosti i piscima (Of Literature and Writers), Art Rabic, Sarajevo, 2018.
• Zapisi veselog filozofa. Slikovni zapisi u knjizi: Amela Hadžimejlić, (Notes of the Merry Philosopher. Visual comments by Amela Hadžimejlić), Art Rabic, Sarajevo 2019
• Prošle godine u Barnetu (Last year in Barnet), Buybook, Sarajevo 2022
• Gnome, Art Rabic, Sarajevo, 2023
• Filozofske priče (Philosophical stories), Buybook, 2024

Published in Croatia:

• Umjetnost uništenog: estetika, rat i Holokaust (The Arts of the Destroyed. The Arts, the War and the Holocaust), Izdanja Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 2005,
• Priroda umjetnosti (The Nature of the Arts), Izdanja Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 2006,
• Tekst o tuđini (The Text on Exile) illustrated by Mersad Berber, Demetra, Zagreb, 2007 Translated into Italian and published in Italy Il popolo del diluvio, Bottega Errante Edizioni, 2018
• Djelo i nedjelo: umjetnost, etika i politika (On the Arts, Ethics and Politics), Demetra, Zagreb, 2008,
• Imaginacija (Imagination), Zagreb, Izdanja Antibarbarus, 2009,
• Osobno kao tekst, (Personal as Text), Izdanja Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 2011,
• Čitatelj Hegelove estetike (A Reader of Hegel's Aesthetics), Naklada Breza, Zagreb, 2014,
• Estetska terminologija (Terminology of Aesthetics), Izdanja Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 2014,
• Korist filozofije (Usefulness of Philosophy), Izdanja Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 2017,
• Što se sviđa svima. Komentari uz Kantovo shvaćanje umjetnosti(What is Pleasing to All. Comments on Kant's Conception of the Arts), Biblioteka Filozofska istraživanja, knjiga 152, Zagreb 2019.
• Prvo, bitno (Prime, Essential), Factum izdavaštvo Belgrade and Jesenski and Turk Zagreb 2020.
• Sve dok (Until), Fraktura, Zapresic, 2021
• U unutarnjem, istina (In the Innter, the Truth), TIM press, Zagreb 2022., ISBN 9789533690094
• Filozofske priče (Philosophical stories), Buybook, 2024

Published in Serbia:

• Ukratko (In Short), Factum Izdavastvo, Belgrade, 2018, – Translated into Hebrew and published by Carmelph.co.il, 2023
• Misterij, iza svega(Mystery Beyond Everything), Factum Izdavastvo, Belgrade, 2019
• Prvo, bitno (Prime, Essential) Factum izdavaštvo Belgrade and Jesenski and Turk Zagreb 2020.
• Emigrantska slikovnica (An Immigrant Picture Book), U suradnji Factum izdavaštvo, Beograd i Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb 2022. ISBN 9788680254494

Sources

• Interview with Predrag Finci 2012
• Interview with Predrag Finci, 2012
• Predrag Finci about Exile, 2012
• Interview with Predrag Finci 2013
• BBC Radio 3, A Conversation with Predrag Finci 2014
• www.smashwords.com, Interview with Predrag Finci, 2014

External links

• Exiled Writers Inc!
• P. E. N. Bosnia and Herzegovina
• El Mundo Sefarad
• Smrt čitatelja(The Death of the Reader) by Predrag Finci, 2005
• Il libro dell'esilio (The Text on Exile) translated by Angelo Floramo, 2007
• The Terrorism of the Cultural Column by Predrag Finci
• u umjetnosti (Antisemitism in Art), a series of texts by Predrag Finci, 2013
• O kolodvoru i putniku (About Stations and Travelers) by Predrag Finci, pages 87–144, 2013
• O nekim sporednim stvarima (On some Secondary Matters) by Predrag Finci
• Hrvatska Enciklopedija

Notes and References

1. Web site: Predrag Finci . IMDb. en.
2. Web site: Sarajevski atentat. IMDb.
3. Web site: Predrag Finci. makabijada.com. hr.
4. Web site: Narativni Identitet: Pogled U Osobno (Predrag Finci. Osobno kao tekst. Zagreb, Izdanja Antibarbarus, 2011.). Katnić-Bakaršić. Marina. odjek.ba. https://web.archive.org/web/20180106120201/http://www.odjek.ba/?broj=27&id=26. 6 January 2018. hr.
5. Web site: Predrag Finci Priroda Umjetnosti. Bosto. Sulejman. El Mundo Sefarad. bs. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211016182523/http://elmundosefarad.wikidot.com/sulejman-bosto:predrag-finci-priroda-umjetnosti. 16 October 2021.
6. Web site: Muharem Bazdulj Lirika Itake. Bazdulj. Muharem. El Mundo Sefarad. bs. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211016182657/http://elmundosefarad.wikidot.com/muharem-bazdulj-lirika-itake. 16 October 2021.
7. Web site: Slobodan Snajder Pisac Je Uvijek Emigrant . Šnajder. Slobodan. El Mundo Sefarad. bs. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211016182758/http://elmundosefarad.wikidot.com/slobodan-snajder-pisac-je-uvijek-emigrant. 16 October 2021.
8. Web site: Holokaust I Umjetnost. Ivanković. Željko. El Mundo Sefarad. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211016182916/http://elmundosefarad.wikidot.com/holokaust-i-umjetnost. 16 October 2021. bs.
9. Web site: Luciano Lukšić: Logos, um i grad (O dvije knjige Predraga Fincija) . radio gornji grad. hr. 14 January 2017.
10. Web site: Predrag Finci. exiledwriters.co.uk. 23 July 2015. 16 October 2021.
11. Web site: Predrag Finci . penbih.ba . bs-BA.
12. Web site: o HFD-u Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo . www.hrfd.hr. hr.
13. http://penbih.ba/clanovi/predrag-finci/m
14. Web site: Dodijeljene nagrade najboljima, kriza umanjila promet . www.klix.ba . hr.