MESA SELIMOVIĆ (1910-1982) is one of the most significant writers to emerge from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Born in Sarajevo, of Muslim descent, he brought to the literature of Yugoslavia an unprecedented psychological subtlety and an existential concern for characters at crucial moments of their lives. His novel Death and the Dervish was published by Northwestern University Press in 1996. E. D. Goy (1910-2000) was a lecturer in Slavonic studies at Cambridge for thirty-five years until his retirement in 1990. JASNA LEVINGER-GOY was a lecturer in English language and sociolinguistics at the Universities of Sarajevo and Novi Sad. She now lives in Cambridge.