Momo Kapor was born in 1937 in Sarajevo. During the German bombing of Sarajevo on April 13, 1941, it fell on the house where Moma's mother, grandmother and about forty other people took shelter bomb, and four-year-old Momo was the only one who survived thanks to the fact that he the mother covered herself with her own body, remaining dead on the spot.

My earliest childhood spent in Sarajevo. In September 1955, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Art in Belgrade, where he graduated in 1961, in the class of Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenović. Momo Kapor is the author of over forty books. In addition to novels and story, he wrote plays, travelogues, essayistic prose and was engaged in illustration. His books have been translated into many foreign languages.

In parallel with the literary work He also painted, and at the same time illustrated almost all of his books. He had solo exhibitions in Serbia, the USA, Italy, Venezuela, Germany and Great Britain. He died in 2010 in Belgrade.