Author of the novel "Crna Duša" Ahmet M. Rahmanović born in 1954 in Zenica. Until the end of the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, with He lived and worked in Sarajevo with his wife and three children. At the end of 1995, he came moved with his family to Chicago, where he still lives today. He graduated from the Faculty of of political science in Sarajevo in 1977.