Author: Merima Spahić
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 07 March 2011

In 1961, news shot around the world that a Yugoslav writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivo Andrić, had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel The Bridge over the Drina. Fifty years later, statistics were published which said that 5.4 percent of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina were illiterate.

Author: Merima Spahić
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 28 September 2010 

In the town of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the birthplace of one of the most important authors of the former Yugoslavia, Meša Selimović, a literary award bearing his name is presented every year during the “Cum grano salis” international literary gathering. The award has been presented since 1998 for the best novel in the language region of Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Author: Mediha Adrović
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 1 February 2010

In the year of 1968, the novel Ugursuz announced Nedžad Ibrišimović to Bosnia and Herzegovina's literary elite. Not yet 30, Ibrišimović, a veritable literary discovery, became a laureate of the prestigious Sarajevo April 6 city prize.

Author: Mediha Adrović
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 1 February 2010

Abdulah Sidran is a poet, writer, and screenwriter – an artist of exquisite, universal talent with a unique gift for empathy. When asked about his literary role models, those whom he likes to call his “pen brothers,” Sidran says that most do not belong to modern times.