What is Zlata Filipović?
{{Infobox person | name = Zlata Filipović | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1980|12|03}} | birth_place = [[Sarajevo]], [[Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Yugoslavia]] (modern-day [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]) | nationality = [[Bosniaks|Bosnian]]; later [[Irish people|Irish]] | known_for = Keeping a diary during the<br/> [[Bosnian War]]. }} '''Zlata Filipović''' (born {{birth date|df=yes|1980|12|03}}) is a [[Bosniaks|Bosnian]]-born [[Irish people|Irish]] woman who kept a [[diary]] documenting life in Sarajevo, when it was [[Siege of Sarajevo|besieged]], during the [[Bosnian War]]. Her diary was first published as a book in 1992 under the title [[Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo]] (originally ''Dnevnik Zlatin: Dječij život u Sarajevu'' in [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]]). The diary was republished one year later with more content in 1993. Thanks to the publication of her diary, the [[United Nations]] helped Filipović and her mother leave [[Sarajevo]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] and move to Paris, France, in December 1993. == Biography == Zlata Filipović was born into a Bosnian family in the city of [[Sarajevo]], [[Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Yugoslavia]] (modern-day [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]). Filipović was the only child of an [[advocate]] and a [[chemist]]. She began writing in her diary in 1991, writing about her daily life. Shortly after Filipović began writing the diary, the [[Bosnian War]] broke out, and [[Sarajevo]] (the city she and her family lived in) was [[Siege of Sarajevo|besieged]]. She wrote about the daily horrors of her life in Sarajevo, and even wrote (in her diary) about the tragic deaths of some of her friends. In a entry of her diary, she wrote that a girl was walking on a bridge, and while walking she was suddenly [[Gunshot|shot with a gun]] by a enemy [[soldier]]. She died shortly afterwards as a result of the gunshot wound. =