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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meša Selimović has received more than 271,656 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Meša Selimović is the 854th most popular writer (up from 1,043rd in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 21st 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Za i protiv Vuka
Serbo-Croatian language, Orthography and spelling, Biography
1970
Derviš i smrt
Fiction, History, Mevleviyeh
1966
Tvrđava
1970
Ostrvo
1974
Djevojka crvene kose
World War, 1939-1945 in fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction
1970
Derviš i smrt
1967

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Meša Selimović ranks 854 out of 7,302. Before him are W. H. Auden, Stesichorus, Jules Renard, Frank Wedekind, Ahmed Deedat, and Vicente Aleixandre. After him are Philippe Ariès, Jan Neruda, Ibn al-Jawzi, Ernesto Sabato, Iris Murdoch, and John Fante.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Meša Selimović ranks 39. Before him are Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, William Hanna, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, William Shockley, Robert van Gulik, and Benzion Netanyahu. After him are Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Diosdado Macapagal, Edda Mussolini, Paul Flory, Luise Rainer, and Edvard Kardelj. Among people deceased in 1982, Meša Selimović ranks 45. Before him are Bachir Gemayel, Helen of Greece and Denmark, Hermann Balck, Walther Wenck, Lee Strasberg, and Varlam Shalamov. After him are Walter Hallstein, Peter Weiss, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Gershom Scholem, E. H. Carr, and Sobhuza II.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Meša Selimović ranks 20 out of 375. Before him are Zoran Đinđić (1952), Biljana Plavšić (1930), Vahid Halilhodžić (1952), Miroslav Blažević (1935), Vukašin of Serbia (1320), and Ivica Osim (1941). After him are Boris Tadić (1958), Vojislav Šešelj (1954), David Elazar (1925), Milorad Dodik (1959), Bekim Fehmiu (1936), and Haris Silajdžić (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among writers born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Meša Selimović ranks 2. Before him are Ivo Andrić (1892). After him are Branko Ćopić (1915), Petar Kočić (1877), Aleksa Šantić (1868), Jovan Dučić (1871), Mak Dizdar (1917), Predrag Matvejević (1932), Isak Samokovlija (1889), Abdulah Sidran (1944), Filip Višnjić (1767), and Safvet-beg Bašagić (1870).

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