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| '''Meša Selimović''' was one of the greatest ] novelists |
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Meša Selimović, Bosniak and Serbian prose writer, was one of the greatest 20th century novelists of the Southeastern Europe.
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-Croatian 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 (anti-fascist resistance movement). 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" (Derviš i smrt), speaking of the futility of one man's resistance against a pushing system, resembling Kafka's Prozess in several ways.