Lejla Kalamujić was born on Vratnik in Sarajevo in 1980. She graduated from the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 2011. She wrote literary and film reviews and edited several literary magazines. In the period from 2006 until today, she occasionally edited the website of the Sarajevo Film Festival and worked as a journalist for the festival bulletin.
She won the first prize from the Zoro publishing house for a collection of unpublished stories, which was published in 2009 under the title "Anatomy of a Smile". She published her second collection of stories "Zovite me Esteban" first in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dobra knjiga, 2015) and then in Serbia (Red Box, 2016), Croatia (Sandorf, 2017) and in translation into Macedonian "Викајте mе Эстебан" (Blesok, 2017), and into Slovenian "Kličite me Esteban" (Lambda 2018). She is also the author of the full-length drama "The Ogre or How I Killed My Family", which was shortlisted for the Heartefact competition in 2017. The drama was translated into German (Die Menschenfresserin oder wie ich meine familie umbrachte) and French (L'Ogresse).
She is the winner of the first prize at the Susreta Zija Dizdarević (Fojnica, 2015), the Edo Budiša Literary Award of the Istrian Region (Istria, 2016), the first prize at the Vox Feminae Award (2011), the Write queer award for best short story (Montenegro, 2017), and other awards, scholarships, and artist residencies.
He lives and works in Sarajevo.
