Zlata Filipović

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Zlata Filipović (born 3 December 1980) is the author of the book Zlata's Diary.

From 1991 - 1993, she wrote in her diary (called "Mimmy") about the horrors of war in Sarajevo, through which she was living. Seeing a debatable parallel to Anne Frank, some news agencies and media outlets labelled her the "Anne Frank of Sarajevo".

Unlike Frank, however, Zlata and her family all survived and escaped to Paris, France in 1995. She graduated from the University of Oxford in 2001 with a BA in human sciences, and now lives in Dublin.

Zlata has continued to write as she wrote the Foreword to The Freedom Writers Diary and translated Vidosav Stevanovic's Milosevic: The People's Tyrant into English (along with providing the preface) in 2004. She was also an editor on Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries from World War I to Iraq, which was published in 2006. Her diary was of great importance, and still is nowadays, to help people to understand the situation in former Yugoslavia back then.