Meša Selimović
1910
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1982
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country of citizenship: Yugoslavia, Austria-Hungary
languages spoken, written or signed: Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian
educated at: University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, Gimnazija Meša Selimović, University of Belgrade
occupation: writer, university teacher
award received: NIN Prize, Ivan Goran Kovačić Award, AVNOJ award, Његошева награда
Mehmed "Meša" Selimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мехмед „Меша” Селимовић; pronounced [mɛ̌xmɛd mɛ̌ːʃa sɛlǐːmɔʋitɕ]; 26 April 1910 – 11 July 1982) was a Yugoslav writer, whose novel Death and the Dervish is one of the most important literary works in post-World War II Yugoslavia. Some of the main themes in his works are the relations between individuality and authority, life and death, and other existential problems. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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