Zuko Džumhur

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Zulfikar "Zuko" Džumhur (born September 24, 1921 in Konjic, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, today Bosnia and Herzegovina, died November 27, 1989 in Herceg Novi, SFR Yugoslavia, today Montenegro) was a Yugoslav writer, painter and caricaturist. Džumhur's boemic nature, versatility of a polymath and extremely creative personality have made him a unique figure of the Yugoslav culture in the second half of the 20th century.

Džumhur was born in Konjic, a small town in Bosnia, but it was when he was only two months old when his father, imam Abduselam Džumhur and mother Vasvija (née Rufo) moved to the capital of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, where his father got the job in the Yugoslav Army. Zuko Džumhur has finished elementary school and the first four grades of the high school in Belgrade, which is when he moved to Sarajevo, where he finished high school in 1939. Džumhur attended classes at the Law Faculty, but has soon left it and has later finished the Art academy in the Petar Dobrović's class. During the World War II, Džumhur's younger brother was killed in 1945.

Džumhur published his first caricatures in an army magazine in 1947, and has very soon became one of the most prominent illustrators in Yugoslavia, publishing his caricatures in the country's best selling newspapers and magazines, such as Politika, Borba, Oslobođenje, Jež, NIN, Danas and many others. He has published over 10,000 ilustrations and caricatures, but has also wrote numerous screenplays and worked on the TV show Hodoljublje, he has hosted for over ten years on the Sarajevo television. He is also signed as a co-author of the popular novel Zelena čoja Montenegra, alongside Serbian novelist Momo Kapor. In 1973 he published Pisma iz Azije (Letters from Asia).