Derviš Sušić

Derviš Sušić (3 June 1925 – 1990) was a Bosniak writer, known best for his first work I, Danilo. He was born in Vlasenica, Bosnia.

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Name	Susic, Dervis
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Date of birth	3 June 1925
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Date of death	1990
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Miljenko Jergović: “What is God to Derviš Sušić”

Afterword to the novel “Hodža Strah”, 2005

„However, Derviš Sušić was a protagonist of his time, a not a marginal figure, and he was a big protagonist, one of those who are used to measure peaks.“ „How, then, Derviš Sušić could be both an atheist and a Muslim? In the same time, only God is able to know whether the beliefs of an atheist and a religious man are excluded in the same person. If we make judgments based on literature, and there is no better way to judge about a man's spirit, then Derviš Sušić is one of not so few great writers in which seemingly contrary faith and infidelity have met.“

An odd fact remains that the most beautiful prosaic pages inspired by Islam in Bosnian literature have been written by two partisans and communists, both in their beginnings defenders of socialist-realism and the theory of reflection, Derviš Sušić and Meša Selimović. But, there is some kind of moral obligation by the readers to accept the whole, and not only the part of the literary and spiritual truth of these writers.

Of course, there is my personal choice and literary taste behind „Hodža Strah“. Along with the novel „Nevakat“, which is a kind of continuation of „Hodža Strah“, and story collections „Pobune“ i „Uhode“, this is a book in front of which I feel the reader's respect and humbleness from the time when I read it for the first time, when I was in the secondary school. The act of reading is, among other things, constant searching for this type of books."