Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina encompasses:

Contents 1 Ancient cultural heritage 2 Architecture 3 Writers 4 Films 5 Music 6 Food

[edit] Ancient cultural heritage

• Bosnian Cyrillic

[edit] Architecture

Main article: Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina

[edit] Writers

• Ivo Andrić - Nobel Prize laureate of 1961
• Musa Ćazim Ćatić - early 20th century poet
• Mak Dizdar- the pre-eminent 20th century poet
• Zuko Džumhur - cartoonist and travel writer
• Aleksandar Hemon - bestselling modern author (lives in the USA)
• Miljenko Jergović - bestselling modern author
• Isak Samokovlija - best known for his portrayal of the Bosnian Sephardic (Jewish) community
• Meša Selimović - prose writer
• Abdulah Sidran - writer of prose, poetry and screenplays
• Derviš Sušić

[edit] Films

• No Man's Land - Oscar-winning motion picture from Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Summer in Golden Valley - won several festivals in Europe
• War Crimes - British war film set in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Features large amount of serbo-croat dialogue.

[edit] Music

Main article: Music of Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Filip Višnjić

[edit] Food

• Bosanski Lonac
• Ćevapi