Zlata Filipović

Zlata Filipović (born 3 December 1980) [ [http://www.mv.com/Writers-Corner/EVENTS/zlata.html Zlata chat ] ] is the author of the book "Zlata's Diary".

From 1991 to 1993, she wrote in her diary (called "Mimmy") 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.

Zlata has continued to write as she wrote the Foreword to The Freedom Writers Diary. She appeared on the talk show Tout le monde en parle on 19 November 2006 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0913917/] .

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* [http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2007/0530/1180134126353.html Irish Times interview with Zlata Filipovic] (subscription needed)
* [http://www.motherdaughterbookclub.com/interviews.html#Zlata%20Filipovic%20Interview Mother Daughter Book Club, interview with Zlata Filipovic]
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=5hRX1z7E8nY Zlata Filipović interview] on the Charlie Rose show, March 7, 1994
* [http://www.radio-canada.ca/actualite/zonelibre/03-12/zlata.html Le Journal De Zlata] from Zone Libre, Radio Canada, December 19, 2003