List of Bosniak writers
This is a list of Bosniak novelists, poets and other writers.
A
- 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
- Asim Bajramović (born 1956), poet and songwriter
- Avdo Humo (1914–1983), writer and politician
- Avdo Karabegović (1878–1908), writer
- Avdo Međedović (1875–1953), oral poet
- Ayşe Kulin (born 1941), Turkish novelist and columnist with Bosniak ancestry
B
- Bisera Alikadić (born 1939), poet
C
- Ćamil Sijarić (1913–1989), novelist and short story writer
D
- Derviš Sušić (1924–1990), writer
- Dževad Karahasan (born 1953), writer and philosopher
E
- Edhem Mulabdić (1862–1954), writer
- Emir Suljagić (born 1975), author
- Enver Čolaković (1913–1976), novelist, poet and translator
F
- Faruk Šehić (born 1970), poet, novelist and short story writer
- Feđa Isović (born 1965), screenplay writer
H
- Hasan Kafi Pruščak (1544–1615), scholar
- 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
- Ivan Franjo Jukić (1818–1857), Catholic writer who considered himself Bosniak
- Izet Sarajlić (1930–2002), historian, essayist, translator and poet
J
- Jasmin Imamović (born 1956), writer and the current mayor of Tuzla
K
- Karim Zaimović (1971–1995), writer, journalist and publicist
M
- Mak Dizdar (1917–1971), poet
- Mehmed Kapetanović (1839–1902), writer
- Meša Selimović (1910–1982), writer and author of Death and the Dervish
- Midhat Ajanović (born 1959), writer
- Muhamed Bekir Kalajdžić (1892–1963), writer, bookseller and publisher
- Muhamed Filipović (born 1929), academic, philosopher, writer, theorist, essayist and historian
- Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi Bosnevi (1601–1651), poet and writer
- 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
- Mustafa Ejubović (1651–1707), historian, writer, and Mufti of Mostar
N
- 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
- Osman Đikić (1879–1912), romantic poet and dramatist
- Osman Nuri Hadžić (1869–1937), intellectual and writer
S
- 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
- Tarik Samarah (born 1965), author
- Téa Obreht (born 1985), naturalized American novelist with Bosniak ancestry, author of The Tiger's Wife (2011)
U
- Umihana Čuvidina (1794–1870), Ottoman poet
V
- Vehid Gunić (1941–2017), writer and journalist
Z
- Zaim Topčić (1920–1990), writer
- Zija Dizdarević (1916–1942), prose writer
- Zlatko Topčić (born 1955), writer and screenwriter
- Zuko Džumhur (1920–1989), writer