Jasna Samic, born in Sarajevo, where she attended high school and music school (department of piano). She graduated in Oriental Studies (Turkish, Arabic and Persian) at University of Sarajevo, where she also received her master's degree in general linguistics, and She defended her doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, in Sufism and the history of Bosnia. Associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo until 1992; for a time Director of Research at the French National Scientific Center (CNRS), Associate at French Radio (RFI) and France Culture, taught languages, history and Balkan literature at Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg; lectured and participated in scientific conferences at European and American universities. Author of about thirty books of all genres, translator from many European and oriental languages ​​into Bosnian, as well as from French into Ottoman Turkish, Bosnian (Serbo-Croatian). Author of films and theatre plays, writes in French and Bosnian; lives in Paris as a freelance artist. Like French writer, laureate of the Stendhal Prize (Missions Stendhal) for 2008. i Gauchez-Philippot for 2014.