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Mesa Selimovic, spelled in Bosnian as Meša Selimoviæ, one of the greatest novelists in the Balkans.
Born on April 26, 1910 in Tuzla, Bosnia, where he graduated from elementary school and high school. In 1930, he enrolled to study the Serbo-Croat language and literature at the University of Belgrade. In 1936., he returned to Tuzla to teach in the high school that today bears his name. In 1943, he was arrested for collaboration with the partisans. From 1947 to 1971 he lived in Sarajevo, than moving to Belgrade to spend the rest of his live, where he died in 1982.
He wrote at least ten significant novels, the most important thereof being The dervish and the death, speaking of the futility of one man's resistance against a pushing system, resembling Kafka's The Prozes in several ways.