Marija Fekete-Sullivan rođena je 1965. u Sarajevu. Do sada je napisala pedeset priča za djecu a priredila je još dvadeset za knjigu Zlatne bosanske bajke.
Njena prva knjiga objavljena je 1995. u Singapuru. Adrian Mitchell je tada zabilježio: „Priče koje sačinjavaju Sirenin san (The Mermaid's Dream) pisane su tradiciji velikog Hans Christian Andersena. Proizišle iz pera Marije Fekete-Sullivan - pisane su sa blagim humorom i iznimnom maštovitošću, ali prije svega sa ljubavlju – to su priče o ljubavi, za djecu ali i za odrasle koji djecu razumiju.“
Autorica je teksta dvojezične (bosanski i engleski) knjige Zaljubljeni vuk/The Wolf in Love. To je prva interaktivna digitalna slikovnica i video igra u Bosni i Hercegovini i nudi edukativne audio i vizualne poticaje djeci, a posebno onoj s poteškoćama u razvoju.
U sklopu svog digitalno-izdavačkog projekta Style Writes Now, MFS je samostalno objavila više od stotinu priča pedeset autora iz Bosne i Hercegovine i šire, uglavnom u prijevodu na engleski. Piše i za odrasle, ali po vokaciji najviše za djecu.
Višestruko nagrađivana književnica i u svom rodnom gradu istaknuta samostalna umjetnica, predložena je za Astrid Lindgren memorijalnu nagradu 2021.
Marija Fekete-Sullivan was born n 1965 in Sarajevo. She has written 50 stories for children, and adapted a further 20 stories for the book Zlatne bosanske bajke (Golden Bosnian Fairy Tales). She writes principally for children, but also for adults.
Her first book, The Mermaid's Dream, was published in Singapore. The British poet Adrian Mitchell said of it, “The stories which make up The Mermaid's Dream are in the tradition of the great Hans Christian Andersen. They are told - by Marija Fekete Sullivan - with gentle humour and rare imagination, but most of all, with love - they are love stories for children and for all adults who understand children.'
Marija wrote the Bosnian and English text of the bilingual book Zaljubljeni vuk/The Wolf in Love, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s first interactive digital picture book and video game. The book offers educational audiovisual content for children, especially children with development difficulties.
Within her digital publishing project, Style Writes Now, Marija has independently published more than 100 stories by more than 50 authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, mainly in English translation.
Marija has been recognised as a distinguished independent artist in her native city of Sarajevo. She is the recipient of multiple awards and was nominated for the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.