Kikic, L: Black box

Lejla Kikic was born in 1978 in a town called Bosanska Gradiska that is situated in the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, she escaped with her family to Croatia in September 1993. In January 1994, Lejla and her family were allowed to come to Denmark and they have been living there ever since. Four years later Lejla started at the University of Southern Denmark and in 2004 she graduated as Master of Arts. While Lejla was studying, she worked as a translator and taught Bosnian and English at several schools. After she graduated, Lejla worked as an English teacher for adults and as a freelance translator. For as long as she can remember, Lejla has been wanting to write a novel. At the age of 18 Lejla tried her hands at writing for the first time, but she had to give up as her ideas were not complete at the time and her time had not come yet. In August 2004, almost 8 years later, Lejla got an idea for a novel. Lejla started writing and has been working on her novel ever since. In the next two years she formed her ideas into the book that is in front of you. The black box is therefore Lejla`s first novel.