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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author · Bosnia and Herzegovina

Meša Selimović

Died in 1982

Meša Selimović, born Mehmed Selimović on 26 April 1910 in Tuzla into a prominent Muslim family, studied language and literature in Belgrade, then taught at the Tuzla lycée from 1935 to 1941. He joined the partisans during the war. In Sarajevo, after 1947, he was a teacher, artistic director of Bosna-film, director of the drama theatre of the National Theatre and an editor at Svjetlost. Settled in Belgrade in 1971, a member of the Serbian and Bosnian academies, he died there on 11 July 1982.

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