Hasan Kikić

At the beginning of the Second World War, he joined the Partisans in February 1942 and, as a commissar of the battalion, died three months later - on May 6, 1942, in Chetnik ambush.

As a captain of the Yugoslav Partisans, Kikić was sent to Sanski Most. His wife Anka stayed in Zagreb with their son Zlatko. Kikić's friend Skender Kulenović had settled in Skender Vakuf during the war. Kulenović recalled that Kikić would often visit him from his post on Mount Čemernica. In May 1942, Kikić arrived on horseback for a short visit and was killed while traveling back to Čemernica.

Kikić co-founded the journal Putokaz (Signpost) with Skender Kulenović and Safet Krupić, in the wake of the cultural and political emancipation of the Bosnian Muslims. The journal was published from 1937 until 1939.

After two years of teaching Kikić become the school governor, and in 1936 was transferred to Pisarovina, where the couple remained for four years.

While working in Rogatica from 1928–32, Kikić met teacher Anka Jovanović, who would become his wife. Anka, a Christian, was from a respectable bourgeois Serb family from Rogatica. The love between Muslims and Christians at the time was considered scandalous. Their families were not supportive of the marriage. Hasan and Anka shunned both families and relocated to the Croatian village Sjeničak in Kordun near Gvozd. They also stayed in Velika Kladuša for a short while.

Hasan Kikić (20 August 1905 – 6 May 1942) was a Bosnian literate and poet.