M. NURULLAH TUNCER
Completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Mimar Sinan Univervisity at the Department of theatre set and costume design.
From 1985 to 2002, he worked as a lecturer at the Department of stage and visual arts of the same university, and from 1985 as an artist in the Municipal theatres of the Istanbul parliament. He created close to a hundred projects for the set, costume and light. From 1987 he has been painting oil on canvas. He had two exhibitions in Istanbul.
Set designs (selection): Ilhami Emin–Jordan Plevnesh, Black Feather, d. Vlado Cvetanovski, Turskish Theatre Skoplje; Molier, Tartuffe, d. Rahim Burhan, Kosovo State Theatre; M. Selimović, Fortress, d. Nebojša Bradić, Kruševac Theatre / Belgrade Drama Theatre; G. Puccini, La Boheme,  d. Sulejman Kupusović, Sarajevo State Opera and Theatre; Franz Lehar, Merry Widow, d. Stephanie Jamnickz, Croatian National Theatre.
Director: M. Selimović, Death and the Dervish, Kocaeli Municipal Theatres (2009); Ozen Jula, A Place in the Middle of the Earth, Bosnian State Theatre Zenica; Hristo Boichev, Orchestra on Titanic, Theatre troupe  'Qatar' (2007); Mehmet Baydur, The Player’s Ochra with Minced Meat, Bosnian State Theatre Zenica (2006); Daha Al Rahbi, The Model, Sirian State Theatre (2006).
He is the recipient of national and international theatre prizes. The plays he has directed participated in many international theatre festivals.

MEŠA (MEHMED) SELIMOVIĆ, (1910 - 1982), prose writer and essayist.  Born in Tuzla, earned a degree from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, fought in the “People’s Liberation Movement” since 1941. From 1944 worked in the Committee for discovering crimes of the occupying forces in Belgrade, from 1946 in the Committee for culture of the Yugoslav government.  From 1947 in Sarajevo, assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, art director of “Bosnia-Film,” Drama director at the National Theatre. Many years editor-in-chief of the publishing house “Svjetlost.” Until death lived in Belgrade.
War themes dominated his early works, equally in stories and in the novels Silences (1961) and Mist and Moonlight (1965).  Subtle psychology and accurate personality characterisation mark those texts and doubtlessly set them apart from the series of works thematically linked to war motifs.  His most significant work, the novel Death and the Dervish (1966), is not only characterised by a well formed style and subtle psychological analyses, but also with its dramatic atmosphere, an extraordinary vertical line between its conceptual and stylistic meaning, in the entire period of Yugoslav literatures after the war, it appears as one of the most particular and most representative books. The entire philosophy of life, experienced and realised in the middle of Bosnia, in the midst of the oriental-Islamic structure of viewing the world and thinking, is here expressed in an inspired projection, with powerful universal meanings. (...) The novel was written multi-dimensionally, in a complex, contemporary manner, attentive to everything that threatens humans among the great worlds and evil imperatives of an unjust government.
Bibl: The Offended Man, The First Squadron, Foreign Land, Essays and Commentaries, For and Against Vuk, Fortress (novel), Writers, Opinions, Conversations, Island (novel), Reminiscences. (Yugoslav Literature Lexicon, Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, 1984).