Josip Pejaković was elected as an honorary member of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian-American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to him, Mišo Marić, Safet Zec, and Pero Zubac were elected as honorary members. "I was offered this position by various national academies, especially from the Croatian diaspora, including this academy when Sidran became a member. I always avoided it skillfully because I thought that the time should come. I am not a regular member; I was attracted by the fact that the academy is multi-ethnic, not nationally colored. There is also Aleksandar Hemon and a lot of the famous world in regular status. I am in the section for culture, closely related to literature and theater. Somewhere in the sixth month, President Mahira Tanović will come to Mostar, and we will have a meeting there, if of course things with the corona are better, and agree on further work in those circumstances in which it will be possible," Pejaković told us, adding that our The Academy (ANU BiH op.a.) is in disarray and that here every one is building an academy on all three sides. "Serbia has one, Croatia has one, and we have one. We have a three-headed eagle, explains Pejaković. He underlines that in this case, the honorary membership in BHAAAS is a kind of intimate recognition and that he is reluctant to talk about awards and recognitions because usually such things in our society turn into their opposite and are ridiculed. "Let's say last year I received the "Olovski Jul" award of the Nakšibendi tekke in Olov, along with Prof. Mirsada Mešić and Prof. . Ph.D. Esad Durakovic. It is interesting because I am the only non-Muslim who received an award for the development of Dervish Sufism. These are intimate and real, and awards such as ZAVNOBiH, Golden Medal, and Golden Laurel Wreath are class-based and have no intimate connotation," says Pejaković. He spends his time in isolation working: "What else can I do, either work or jump out of the window?" The fourth floor is... My window is closed, and I am writing." He says that when a man is more mature, he can dedicate himself to himself. "I wrote Bosnia as I Walk; it shook the world, then Common Prayer, and the Dayton misunderstanding is pepper on the pilaf. I've written three books that are in proofreading, but I'm not going to announce them in front of 25 people. I want to make a spectacle," says Pejaković. He says that his health is serving him well, considering all the health problems he has had for the last three years. We also asked him to comment on the failed election of the mayor of Sarajevo and Bogić Bogićević's withdrawal from the candidacy. "God is my friend above all. I talked to him for a long time on that subject—not what he should decide, not whether to agree or not. He is simply a man who does not need to prove himself. He said a big "no," when he should have had a heart as big as Sarajevo, to Alama and Karakonžula, and stayed alive. He was thirty years younger; surely today he is a more educated, experienced, and prepared man. Those who offered him this candidacy thought he would reject it. He accepted her and put them in a situation to do to him what they did to him yesterday. This was done by joint forces. "Hadžibajrić didn't do it; it was done by careerists from where he ran," said Pejaković. Analyzing the "left," as he says, with all due respect to Nikšić (Nermin Nikšić, leader of the SDP, op. a.) to keep the party alive, there are people in it who do not shy away from anything. They do not recognize continuity; nothing that anyone has done for that party, would maintain that continuity, and everyone pulls to their side. "Lack of continuity is not good for these young people; it's nice to be in parliament; you get a salary, then commission fees. From those huge sums he gets, he doesn't see me with a thousand marks and ten thousand times worse than me, and we should vote for them. Well, I won't. They overthrew Bogić. They have an idea for themselves, not for him. I think there will be enormous pressure from citizens on Bogić. I hope that the political dwarfs, as Esad Duraković called them today, will be insignificant and that Bogić will somehow respond to that pressure and change his decision. And then God help the dwarves," concluded Josip Pejaković. (https://raport.ba/j)
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