Avdo Karabegović

Avdo Karabegović (25 August 1878 – 18 December 1908) was a Bosnian writer. Karabegović died young following a long battle with tuberculosis.

Karabegović was born in the northern Bosnian city of Modriča into a notable bey family who immigrated to Bosnia and Herzegovina from Budapest.^[1] In Modriča he finished maktab. His father Hasan died in 1893, and his mother Fatima (née Mustajbegović) died in 1896. Following his mothers' death, Karabegović cared for his brother and two sisters.

His cousin Avdo S. Karabegović Halidbegov (also born 1878, but died 1900 of tuberculosis), shared his name is often confused for Karabegović. After suffering from tuberculosis for years, Karabegović entered a Loznica hospital in November 1908. He died aged 30 less than a month later of the same disease that his cousin had died of eight years prior. His body was taken to Belgrade and buried.

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