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Zlata Filipović

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December 03, 1980 in Sarajevo

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Zlata Filipović is a Bosnian-Croat writer and author of the book Zlata's Diary.
From 1991 to 1993, she wrote in her diary (called "Mimy") about the horrors of war in Sarajevo, through which she was living. Some news agencies and media outlets labeled her the "Anne Frank of Sarajevo". Unlike Frank, however, Zlata and her family all survived and escaped to Paris in 1993 where they stayed for a year. She attended St. Andrew's College, Dublin senior school, going on to graduate from the University of Oxford in 2001 with a BA in human sciences, and now lives in Dublin, Ireland where she also studied at Trinity College Dublin.
Zlata has continued to write as she wrote the Foreword to The Freedom Writers Diary and having co-edited Stolen Hearts: You...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 2,727 ratings · 331 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović, Zlata Filipovic 3.59 avg rating — 2,283 ratings — published 1993 — 44 editions	My rating:
	Stolen Voices 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Zlata Filipović 4.38 avg rating — 130,018 ratings — published 1954 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them by The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell, Zlata Filipović (Foreword by) 3.97 avg rating — 4,368 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Milosevic: The People's Tyrant by Vidosav Stevanović, Vidosav Stevanovic, Zlata Filipović (Preface) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq by Melanie Challenger (Editor), Zlata Filipović (Introduction), Olara A. Otunnu (Foreword) 3.96 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq by Melanie Challenger, Zlata Filipović (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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“...choose to deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves and for others.”
― Zlata Filipović, The Freedom Writers Diary

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“My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say.”
― Zlata Filipović

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“The sea? What's that?”
― Zlata Filipović

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