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Key facts
- Born
- Mehmed Selimović , ( 1910-04-26 ) 26 April 1910, Tuzla , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 11 July 1982 (1982-07-11) (aged 72), Belgrade , SR Serbia , Yugoslavia
- Resting place
- Belgrade New Cemetery
- Occupation
- Writer, professor, art director
- Language
- Serbo-Croatian
- Nationality
- Yugoslav
- Alma mater
- University of Belgrade
- Genre
- novel
- Notable works
- Death and the Dervish (1966)
- Spouse
- Desa Đorđić, Darka Božić (d. 1999)
- Children
- Slobodanka, Maša, Jesenka
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mehmet
- Family name
- Selimović
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria–Hungary
- Place of birth
- Tuzla
- Place of death
- Belgrade
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Belgrade
- Employer
- University of Sarajevo
- Languages spoken
- Bosnian
- Notable work
- Tvrđava
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Sciences
- Field of work
- literature
- Image
- MesaSelimovic Serbian Literature Great Men Stamps.jpg
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- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- end of work period
- 1982-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Meša Selimović
- Commons category
- Meša Selimović
- date of birth
- 1910-04-26
- date of death
- 1982-07-11
- member of
- Association of Writers of Serbia
- place of burial
- Belgrade New Cemetery
- writing language
- Serbo-Croatian
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Encyclopedic overview
Meša Selimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Меша Селимовић; pronounced [mɛ̌ːʃa sɛlǐːmɔʋitɕ]; born Mehmed Selimović; 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.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meša Selimović” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.