- Was a director and artistic director of the Chamber Theater 55 for 10 years, from 2001 to 2011, which is statistically the most successful period in the history of theater (winning numerous international awards around the world).
- Played in the junior team FK Sarajevo, where he was offered a professional contract.
- Son of a famous writer Zaim Topcic.
- At the age of 17 and under the pseudonym Gold Taucher, he began writing crime novels and short stories, selling millions of copies.
- Was a general director of TVSA.
- Was a director of the Sarajevo City Library.
- Graduated from the Law School of the University of Sarajevo.
- In preparation for filming her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), about the Bosnian War, Angelina Jolie watched his film Remake (2003), based on a true, autobiographical story.
- Was the president of Arts Council of the Sarajevo National Theatre.
- Was a member of the Commission for Free Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- One of the founders of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 1993 to 2001 the first General Secretary and from 2006 to 2010 a Board member.
- Was a Board member of the Open Society Foundation Bosnia and Herzegovina - Soros Foundation.
- Topcic refused to write a script for the 2014 Serbian film So Hot Was the Cannon (Top je bio vreo) and adapt the controversial novel by Vladimir Kecmanovic.
- The French translation of his multiple award-winning novel The Final Word (2011), Le mot de la fin (M.E.O. Edition, Brussels), was published in 2016 and was ranked first on the lists of bestsellers of BookDaily in 2017 (became the first novel from Southeast Europe which appeared on that lists).
- His works have been translated into 12 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Czech, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Albanian, and included in several domestic and international anthologies.
- His novel The Final Word (2011) was labeled "the decisive work of post-Yugoslav engagement prose".
- His drama Time Out (2002; directed by James P. Mirrione) had its English language premiere in Great Britain (London, at the Gate Theatre and Riverside Studios, as well as in Leeds, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Royal Armouries Museum, Powerhouse 1, and Bretton Hall). Also, it was performed in the United States (New York City at the Broadway theatre), Austria (Vienna) and Poland (Warsaw).
- The founder of the Bosnian Tombstone Award and Nedzad Ibrisimovic Award.
- He has produced over 40 theater plays, notably the cult hit The Frog, which was adapted into a film in 2017, and Helver's Night, internationally most awarded play in the history of Bosnian theater.
- Was trapped in Grbavica (quarter of the city of Sarajevo) in 1993 during the Bosnian War. Fifty years earlier (1943) his father Zaim (1920-1990) was trapped in the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II, as a communist. About these events, Zlatko Topcic wrote the screenplay for Remake (2003).
- His plays have been staged in Bosnian and international theaters.
- Winner of the prestigious PEN Austrian Center Award for drama I Don't Like Mondays (2009).
- Spent the entirety of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo.
- Was a friend with the former Czech president and writer Vaclav Havel (died 2011). The story of his multiple award-winning 2013 novel, Dagmar, is based on e-mails of Dagmar Veskrnova-Havlova, wife of Vaclav Havel, and Bosnian writer dr. Oskar Feraget.
- One of the few writers who have twice won the Annual Award of Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (his father Zaim Topcic was also a double winner of this prestigious award).
- Refugee Performance (2013), book by Australian professor Michael Balfour, from various aspects deals with literary, and especially, drama creativity whose theme is refugee. Among eighteen authors from all over the world who testify on this subject, is Topcic with his 1999 drama Refugees.
- He collaborated with two famous theater directors, James P. Mirrione (Broadway and Hollywood director) and Christian Papke, on plays Time Out (2002) and I Don't Like Mondays (2009).
- The author of unofficial text of the National Anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Was a selector of the International Theatre Festival MESS in 2012, president and member of several juries, among others, Foundation for Cinematography jury member for film projects financing in 2019.
- Was the founder and chief editor of the newspaper Letter (Slovo) and organizer of the panorama of Bosnian war stories in English titled Forgotten Country (1997), as well as an anthology of members of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina titled The Best Of (2000).
- The only author who thrice won the BZK Preporod Award for best dramatic text, for dramas Bare Skin (2006), Krokodil Lacoste/Silvertown (2010) and Nobody's and Everyone's (2017).
- The first and only member of the International Screenwriters' Association, American Screenwriters Association and Concordia Organization (New York) from Southeast Europe.
- Member of Council of the BHRT (Public Broadcasting Service) Governing Board since 2019.
- Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House - London). His father Zaim Topcic was also a member.
- Worked on several UNESCO projects.
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