Bosnian author Selvedin Avdic's first book was a collection of short stories entitled Tenants and Other Phantoms, after which he produced a tourist guide to the historic Bosnian town of Jajca and a factual account of Zenica prison. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies and collections. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of the online magazine Zurnal and edits his own radio show, Free Fight. Published to critical acclaim across the region, Seven Terrors is his first novel, his follow-up will be published by Istros in 2019.
"`'It's quite unlike anything I've read before, but it has all the consistency and force of something major and assured.""; ""It's a sideways look at the Bosnian war, with the divisions of the country mirrored in the divisions of life: between madness and sanity, the real world and the supernatural one, presence and absence, speech and silence.''; Nick Lezard in his Best Paperbacks 2014; ""For all its wry humour and playfulness, this is a deeply serious exploration into the legacy of the Bosnian War, in which the fantastic elements are representative of an historical trauma too awful to describe directly."" David Evans - The Independent; ""...spine-chilling Gothic tale which involves mythological demons and rather hilarious observations about women's fashion magazines, alongside a terrifically compelling discourse on war, violence and humanity's dark heart."" Ali Alizadeh, Sydney Review of Books"