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- Cultural Heritage:
- Important Persons of BiH Culture:
Cultural Heritage:
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country of long and rich history. The whole
cities are memorials to past time, such as Jajce, Kraljeva Sutjeska,
Bobovac, Vranduk, Pocitelj, Prusac, Mostar, Sarajevo, Tesanj, Maglaj,
Gradacac, Stolac, and others.
The antique villa on
Mogorjelo near Capljina, the late antique basilica in Breza, the complex
of Roman buildings in Putovici near Zenica and in llidza near Sarajevo,
are archeological locations of first degree. Art historians registered
around 3,000 items, for which, according to UNESCO standards,
convervation and restoration undertakings should be carried out.
If we were to look for an authentic symbol of this country, that whould
probably be stecak - an artifact of original Bosnian cult art.
Stecci (plural of stecak) were first of all tombstones. These massive
stones, their relief drawings and their lapidary writings contain
symbols of the lost life.
Stecci are markings of time and testaments of ancient people who felt
the need to share very important things with future gereations. This is
how one long deceased Bosnian speechlessly expresses his wisdom for
centuries:
"Here lies Dragaj
in the end -
nothing..."
One can find stecci
throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in Radimlja near town Stolac they
form a unique necropolis of this kind in the world.
RARE BOOKS
 In
the National Museum, as maybe its most valuable exhibit, a Hagada is
kept, one of the most beautiful boooks of its kind in the world. This is
a written Hebrew illuminated codex on thinned leather, from the late
14th or early 15th century, originating from Spain.
The Gazi Husrev-bey's library owns an exceptionally valuable
calligraphic transcrpt of the Quran, decorated with rich ornamental
elements. This unique literary monument was given as a gift to the
library by the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and the benefactor,
originating from this region, Mehmed-Pasha Sokolovic.
Very valuable examples of Bosnia and Herzegovinian literary heritage are
hval's Anthology, Hrvoje's missal, and other ancient church
transcripts.
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Important Persons of BiH Culture:
Ivo Andric
 Ivo
Andric, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, is the most famous
name literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the world.
He was born in a village Dolac near Travnik in 1892. After finishing
elementary and high school in Travnik, Visegrad and Sarajevo, Andric
continued his studies in Zagreb, Vienna and Krakow.
After receiving a doctorate in Graz in 1923, he joined the diplomatic
core of the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Andric left his
last diplomatic mission, the ambassadorship in Berlin, immediately after
Germany attacked and occupied Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941.
After returning to Belgrade, Andric retired from public life, writing in
the isolation of his home some of the best Romanesque, narrative and
essay works in Serbian/Croation/Bosnian language.
During the World War ll he wrote his most important book - a novel "Na
Drini cuprija" (Bridge across Drina), for which he received a Nobel
prize in 1961.
His other work - Travnicka hronika, Gospodica, Pripovijetke, Prokleta
avlija, and others belong to the highest category of literary art.
Andric died on 13 March 1975.
Vladimir Prelog
 Bosnia
and Herzegovina has another Nobel prize winner. That is Vladimir Prelog
who received this highest international award for science in 1975.
Vladimir Prelog was born in 1906 in Sarajevo, who was at the time
within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
He finished high school in Zagreb and received his university degree
from the Czech Institute for Technology in Prague in 1929.
The university and research and scientific
carrier of Vladimir Prelog was closely tied to the great scientist
Leopold Ruzicka, who was his professor in the studies.
Ruzicka saved Prelog in the beginning of World War ll by inviting him to
work in the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), where he
completely developed his scientific potential, based on which in 1975 he
split a reward for chemistry with the Australian scientist J.W.Cornforth.
Vladimir Prelog died on 7 January 1989.
Mesa Selimovic
 In
addition to Mehmedalija Mesa Selimovic is undoubtedly the most
reputable literary name of cultural history of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He was born in 1910 in Tuzla. After graduating from the Philosophic
Faculty in Belgrade, until the World War ll broke out, he worked as a
gymnasium professor in his hometown. He was imprisoned in 1942 and in
1943 he joined partisans, the antifascist army of the peoples of
Yugoslavia. After the war, he worked for a while as a university teacher
in Sarajevo and assumed many important cultural duties. He spent his
last years in Belgrade, his wife's hometown.
Seliovic is a prosaic writer with variety of themes and genre
orientation. His literary opus includes several books of short stories,
novels, studies, essays, and polemic writings.
He achieved his biggest success with the novel "Dervis i smrt" (Dervish
and death), for which he received all Yugoslav awards. His following
novel "Tvrdava" (Fortress)(1970) was also very popular.
Mesa Selimovic died in Belgrade on 11 July 1982.
Danis Tanovic
 25
March 2002 - The movie "No Man's Land" by Danis Tanovic, early this
morning by central European time, received the most prestigious movie
award - the Oscar. The award for the best foreign language film was
presented to Tanovic in the completely full Kodak Theartre in Los
Angeles by the Hollywood actor John Travolta in the company of Sharon
Stone. "This is for my country, for Bosnia and Herzegovina", said
the Danis Tanovic, the director from Bosnia and Herzegovina, tonight as
he received the Oscar.
Danis Tanovic was born in 1969 in Zenic. He studied in the
Sarajevo Academy of Stage Arts and graduated directing in the INSAS
Academy in Brussels. He directed and wrote screenplays for many renowned
documentaries. His first motion picture No Man's Land is the most
rewarded debutant movie in the history of world cinematography.
Danis Tanovic lives and works in Paris.
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