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Revision as of 05:58, 24 May 2005 by 195.229.241.180 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Mehmed Meša Selimović, Bonian prose writer who lived in Bosnia was one of the greatest 20th century novelists of Southeastern Europe.
He was 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, then moving to Belgrade to spend the rest of his life, where he died in 1982.
He wrote at least ten significant novels, the most important thereof being one that he wrote because his brother was in prison at Goli otok, The Dervish and Death (Derviš i smrt), speaking of the futility of one man's resistance against a pushing system, and changing that man after he becomes hand in the city, sometimes resembling Kafka's Prozess in several ways.
Throughout his work, Mesa Selimovic conveys the hardships and joys of the Muslim population in Bosnia and Herzegovina, very often philosophical and religious contexts.