Zlatko Topcic

Zlatko Topcic was born on April 30th, 1955 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He is a famous multiple award-winning Bosnian writer and one of the greatest contemporary world writers. His films are screened at over 200 international film festivals around the world, including: Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Toronto, Locarno, New York, Los Angeles, Hollywood and Amsterdam. Topcic wrote the screenplays for the internationally acclaimed feature films Remake (2003, produced by BAFTA Award-winning producer) and The Abandoned (2010, produced by Hollywood producer), box office hits (earned over $210 million worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing European screenwriters) and multiple award-winning films at most prestigious international film festivals around the world. Also, he wrote the screenplays for TV movie Collapse (1985) and four documentary films: The Best Years Ever (1994), Miracle in Bosnia (1995), I Respond to You, God (1996) and Blood and Musk (1997), achieved worldwide success. Winner of the first prize at an anonymous competition for original screenplay of the Association of Filmmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the script Remake in 1999. In the same year, the script was awarded at the competition of the Ministry of Culture and Sport. His screenplay for The Abandoned (working title: Bare Skin) was a winning (91 entries) at the first edition of CineLink in 2003. In 2011, for that script, he won the Best Screenplay Award at the Transilvania International Film Festival, Golden Carpathian Film Festival and Hollywood Film Festival. Besides his film work, Topcic wrote best-selling novels translated into twelve world languages, sold over ten million copies, and theater plays produced in British, American (Broadway and Hollywood) and Austrian productions, directed by world-renowned theater directors. Member of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, PEN Center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Association of Filmmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, International Screenwriters' Association, American Screenwriters Association, Concordia Organization (New York) and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House - London). In 2004, he was included on the annual Marquis Who's Who in the World list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He lives in Sarajevo with wife Amela and son Kerim (born 1997).