Samira Kentrić (1976) writes articles and original books, and creates book covers and illustrations in which she fuses public, political speech with the intimacy of everyday life. She is the author of three graphic novels: the autobiographical novel Balkanalia (2015) about growing up during the post- Yugoslav transition, A Letter to Adna (2016), a socially engaged story about the fate of refugees on their way to the EU, and Adna (2020), a novel about finding one’s place in society following tragic events. She received the Special Book Award from the Motovun Group of International Publishers for Balkanalia. The Bulgarian translation of the novel was included in an annual selection of the 15 best books published in Bulgaria. The German translation was selected as the Young Adult Book of the Month by the German Academy for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, as well as included in the Börsenblatt magazine’s list of 14 recommended books translated from Slovenian. In 2022, her illustration for the cover of the street paper Kralji ulice received the Best Cover Award from the International Network of Street Papers, as determined by a public vote.