WRITER

Meša Selimović

1910 - 1982

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Mehmed "Meša" Selimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мехмед „Меша” Селимовић; pronounced [mɛ̌xmɛd mɛ̌ːʃa sɛlǐːmɔʋitɕ]; 26 April 1910 – 11 July 1982) was a Yugoslav writer, whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Bosnian and Serbian literature. Some of the main themes in his works are the relations between individuality and authority, life and death, and other existential problems. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Meša Selimović is the 1,071st most popular writer (down from 853rd in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (down from 20th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Writer.

Meša Selimović is most famous for his novel, "Death and the Dervish." It is a story about a dervish who is dying.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Meša Selimović ranks 1,071 out of 7,302Before him are P. L. Travers, William Gibson, Nikolay Nekrasov, W. G. Sebald, Paul Bourget, and Marcus Manilius. After him are Ilia Chavchavadze, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Pynchon, Bolesław Prus, Michel Tournier, and Tavo Burat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Meša Selimović ranks 53Before him are Erich Kempka, Edvard Kardelj, Momofuku Ando, Robert van Gulik, Francisco Varallo, and Tancredo Neves. After him are Jean-Louis Barrault, Said bin Taimur, Diosdado Macapagal, Diana Mosley, Farid al-Atrash, and August Landmesser. Among people deceased in 1982, Meša Selimović ranks 52Before him are Peter Weiss, Hermann Balck, Helen of Greece and Denmark, E. H. Carr, Bachir Gemayel, and Thelonious Monk. After him are John Cheever, Shiro Teshima, Gershom Scholem, Takashi Shimura, Mario Del Monaco, and Vladimir K. Zworykin.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Meša Selimović ranks 28 out of 375Before him are Vahid Halilhodžić (1952), Miroslav Blažević (1935), Vukašin of Serbia (1320), Ante Marković (1924), Haris Silajdžić (1945), and Vojislav Šešelj (1954). After him are Vjekoslav Luburić (1914), Safet Sušić (1955), Lepa Brena (1960), Catherine of Bosnia (1425), Ljupko Petrović (1947), and Bekim Fehmiu (1936).

Among WRITERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among writers born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Meša Selimović ranks 2Before him are Ivo Andrić (1892). After him are Branko Ćopić (1915), Petar Kočić (1877), Jovan Dučić (1871), Aleksa Šantić (1868), Mak Dizdar (1917), Abdulah Sidran (1944), Predrag Matvejević (1932), Isak Samokovlija (1889), Filip Višnjić (1767), and Staka Skenderova (1828).