Editing Bosnia and Herzegovina (section)

===Literature===
{{Main|Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina#Literature}}
[[File:S. Kragujevic, Andric na vest o N. nagradi 1961.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Ivo Andrić]] with his wife [[Milica Babić-Jovanović|Milica]], upon learning he had won the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]]]

Bosnia and Herzegovina has a rich literature, including the [[Nobel Prize]] winner [[Ivo Andrić]] and poets such as [[Antun Branko Šimić]], [[Aleksa Šantić]], [[Jovan Dučić]] and [[Mak Dizdar]], writers such as [[Zlatko Topčić]], [[Meša Selimović]], [[Semezdin Mehmedinović]], [[Miljenko Jergović]], [[Isak Samokovlija]], [[Safvet-beg Bašagić]], [[Abdulah Sidran]], [[Petar Kočić]], [[Aleksandar Hemon]] and [[Nedžad Ibrišimović]].

The [[Sarajevo National Theatre|National Theater]] was founded in 1919 in [[Sarajevo]] and its first director was dramatist [[Branislav Nušić]]. Magazines such as ''[[Novi Plamen]]'' or ''Sarajevske sveske'' are some of the more prominent publications covering cultural and literary themes.

By the late 1950s, Ivo Andrić's works had been translated into a number of languages. In 1958, the [[Association of Writers of Yugoslavia]] nominated Andrić as its first ever candidate for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]