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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 novel Death and the Dervish is one of the most important literary works in post-World War II Yugoslavia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meša Selimović has received more than 252,237 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Meša Selimović is the 1,045th most popular writer (down from 967th in 2019), the 21st 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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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.26

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Meša Selimović ranks 1,045 out of 5,755Before him are Ellen Key, Bharata Muni, Khachatur Abovian, Robert de Montesquiou, Natalie Clifford Barney, and D. T. Suzuki. After him are N. F. S. Grundtvig, Ernst Barlach, Fredric Brown, Edmund Spenser, Mori Ōgai, and Kobayashi Issa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Meša Selimović ranks 44Before him are Pierre Schaeffer, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, António de Spínola, Michel Aflaq, Ne Win, and Galina Ulanova. After him are Edvard Kardelj, Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Archer Martin, Eero Saarinen, Lobsang Rampa, and John Sturges. Among people deceased in 1982, Meša Selimović ranks 53Before him are Walter Hallstein, Anna German, Hermann Balck, Vinoba Bhave, Bachir Gemayel, and Philip Noel-Baker. After him are Vladimir K. Zworykin, Takashi Shimura, Sobhuza II, Mario Del Monaco, Colin Chapman, and Eduardo Frei Montalva.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Meša Selimović ranks 21 out of 320Before him are Vladimir Prelog (1906), Slobodan Praljak (1945), Miroslav Blažević (1935), Zoran Đinđić (1952), Silvana Armenulić (1939), and Ivica Osim (1941). After him are Fikret Abdić (1939), Vojislav Šešelj (1954), Vukašin of Serbia (1320), Haris Silajdžić (1945), Vjekoslav Luburić (1914), and Ban Kulin (1163).

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), Aleksa Šantić (1868), Mak Dizdar (1917), Jovan Dučić (1871), Predrag Matvejević (1932), Isak Samokovlija (1889), Abdulah Sidran (1944), Umihana Čuvidina (1794), and Semir Osmanagić (1960).