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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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  • PoetryHasanaginicaAnonymous · 1774A ballad passed on by word of mouth in the Dalmatian hinterland is written down and printed by an Italian traveller.Literature
  • PoetryPjesmeAleksa Šantić · 1908not translated into EnglishThe poet of Mostar, now in full command of his art, publishes a new collection a year after his debut at the National Theatre in Belgrade.Literature
  • PoetryPreobraženjaAntun Branko Šimić · 1920not translated into EnglishThree years after leaving school to found a magazine, a young poet without means publishes his only collection in Zagreb.Literature
  • Short storiesOd proljeća do proljećaIsak Samokovlija · 1929not translated into EnglishThe book appears in Sarajevo, published by the Group of Sarajevo Writers (Grupa sarajevskih književnika), two years after the first short story published by this hospital doctor.Literature
  • PoetryStojanka majka KnežopoljkaSkender Kulenović · 1942not translated into EnglishThe lament of a Bosnian peasant woman who has lost her sons in the war of 1942.Literature
  • NovelThe Bridge on the DrinaNa Drini ćuprijaIvo Andrić · 1945The book appeared in Belgrade five months after the liberation of the city, together with two other novels written during the occupation.Literature
  • CinemaMajor BaukNikola Popović · 1951Six years after the war, the young Bosna Film studio produces its first major fiction film, an epic of the resistance.Cinema
  • NovelDeath and the DervishDerviš i smrtMeša Selimović · 1966The novel was published in Sarajevo by Svjetlost, after four years of writing, under socialist Yugoslavia.Literature
  • PoetryStone SleeperKameni spavačMak Dizdar · 1966After a series of collections, a poet from Sarajevo, long a journalist and editor, turns to the medieval tombs of his country.Literature
  • NovelUgursuzNedžad Ibrišimović · 1968not translated into EnglishFour years after a first collection of short stories, a young writer from Sarajevo, a sculptor by training, publishes his first novel.Literature
  • NovelZemlja heretikaZaim Topčić · 1972not translated into EnglishA former partisan, who passed through the Jasenovac camp and became a novelist of the war, turns to the centuries of the bans of Bosnia.Literature
  • CinemaWalter Defends SarajevoValter brani SarajevoHajrudin Krvavac · 1972For the thirtieth anniversary of the revolution, the Bosna Film studio dedicates an action film to the heroism of the people of Sarajevo.Cinema
  • PoetrySarajevski tabutAbdulah Sidran · 1993not translated into EnglishThe book appears in besieged Sarajevo, when the Bosnian war has been going on for more than a year.Literature