List of Bosniak writers

This is a list of Bosniak novelists, poets and other writers.

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## A[edit]

The handbook, Bosnian Book of the Science of Conduct by Abdulvehab Ilhamija (1773–1821)

* Abdulah Sidran (born 1944), writer and poet
* Abdulvehab Ilhamija (1773–1821), poet and prose writer
* Ahmed Muradbegović (1898–1972), writer, dramatist and novelist
* Alija Isaković (1932–1997), writer, essayist, publicist, playwright, and lexicographer
* Asaf Duraković (born 1940), poet
* Avdo Humo (1914–1983), writer and politician
* Ayşe Kulin (born 1941), Turkish novelist and columnist with Bosniak ancestry

## B[edit]

* Bisera Alikadić (born 1939), poet

## D[edit]

* Derviš Sušić (1924–1990), writer
* Dževad Karahasan (born 1953), writer and philosopher

## E[edit]

* Edhem Mulabdić (1862–1954), writer
* Emir Suljagić (born 1975), author
* Enver Čolaković (1913–1976), novelist, poet and translator

## F[edit]

* Faruk Šehić (born 1970), poet, novelist and short story writer
* Feđa Isović (born 1965), screenplay writer

## H[edit]

Ivan Franjo Jukić (1818–1857), Roman Catholic writer from Banja Luka who considered himself Bosniak

* Hasan Kikić (1905–1942), literate and poet
* Hamdija Kreševljaković (1888–1959), historian
* Hamid Ekrem Šahinović (1882–1936), writer and dramatist
* Hamid Dizdar (1907–1967), writer and poet
* Hamza Humo (1895–1970), poet, dramatist, and writer of short novels

## I[edit]

* Ivan Franjo Jukić (1818–1857), Catholic writer who considered himself Bosniak
* Izet Sarajlić (1930–2002), historian, essayist, translator and poet

## J[edit]

* Jasmin Imamović (born 1956), writer and the current mayor of Tuzla

## K[edit]

* Karim Zaimović (1971–1995), writer, journalist and publicist

## M[edit]

* Mak Dizdar (1917–1971), poet
* Mehmed Kapetanović (1839–1902), writer
* Midhat Ajanović (born 1959), writer
* Muhamed Bekir Kalajdžić (1892–1963), writer, bookseller and publisher
* Muhamed Filipović (1929–2020), academic, philosopher, writer, theorist, essayist and historian
* Mula Mustafa Bašeskija (1731–1809), chronicler, diarist, poet and calligrapher
* Musa Ćazim Ćatić (1878–1915), poet and writer
* Mustafa Busuladžić (1914–1945), writer and scientist

## N[edit]

* Nafija Sarajlić (1893–1970), first female Bosniak prose writer
* Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić (1932–1995), children's author and poet
* Nedžad Ibrišimović (1940–2011), writer
* Nihad Hasanović (born 1974), writer and translator
* Nijaz Duraković (1949–2012), author and intellectual

## O[edit]

Safvet beg Bašagić (1870–1934) is considered the father of the Bosnian Renaissance, and one of the most cherished Bosniak poets at the turn of the 20th century

* Osman Nuri Hadžić (1869–1937), intellectual and writer

## S[edit]

* Safet Plakalo (1950–2015), playwright and poet
* Safvet beg Bašagić (1870–1934), writer and poet
* Semezdin Mehmedinović (born 1960), writer
* Semir Osmanagić (born 1960), writer
* Senad Hadžimusić (born 1957), poet and songwriter
* Šemso Tucaković (born 1946), writer and historian
* Šerbo Rastoder (born 1956), historian
* Skender Kulenović (1910–1978), poet, novelist and dramatist

## T[edit]

* Tarik Samarah (born 1965), author
* Téa Obreht (born 1985), naturalized American novelist with Bosniak ancestry, author of The Tiger's Wife (2011)

## U[edit]

* Umihana Čuvidina (1794–1870), Ottoman poet

## V[edit]

* Vehid Gunić (1941–2017), writer and journalist

## Z[edit]

* Zaim Topčić (1920–1990), writer
* Zija Dizdarević (1916–1942), prose writer
* Zlatko Topčić (born 1955), writer and screenwriter
* Zuko Džumhur (1920–1989), writer

## See also[edit]

* List of Bosniaks
* List of Bosniaks in music

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