30 Serbian non fiction writers

Vladimir Arsenijević is a Serbian novelist, columnist, translator, editor, musician, and publisher. He lives and works in Belgrade. Arsenijević won the prestigious NIN Award for the Yugoslavian novel of the year 1994 for his novel In the Hold.

Dragomir Brajković was a Montenegrin Serb writer, journalist, editor of Radio Belgrade, poet and member of the Association of Writers of Serbia.

Branimir Ćosić was a Serbian writer and journalist born in the village of Štitar and died in Belgrade at 31 from tuberculosis. He studied philosophy and law in Belgrade, Lausanne and Paris. Ćosić published his texts in Politika (1924), Reči i slika (1926) and Pravda (1930-1934). His parents were teachers in schools in nearby villages.

Dobrica Ćosić was a Serbian politician, writer, and political theorist.

Dejan Cukić is a Serbian rock musician, journalist, writer and translator.

Rade Drainac was a Serbian poet.

Dragomir Dujmov is a Serbian poet, novelist and short story writer from Hungary.

Milovan Glišić was a Serbian writer, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist. He is sometimes referred to as the Serbian Gogol.

Ivan Ivanić was a Serbian diplomat of the Kingdom of Serbia and author of numerous ethnographical works about Serbia and the Balkans. He also wrote travel literature about the region of Old Serbia.

Zorica Jevremović is a Serbian theatre and video director, playwright, choreographer, intermedia theorist, literary historian and feminist. Her work also includes that of a dramaturge in alternative and informal theatrical and film groups.

Borisav Jović is an economist, former Serbian and Yugoslav diplomat and politician, who was Yugoslavia's ambassador to Italy from the mid to late 1970s, was the Serbian representative of the collective presidency of Yugoslavia during the late 1980s and early 1990s, was the President of Yugoslavia from 1990–91, and was a leading figure in the Socialist Party of Serbia in the 1990s. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Belgrade in 1965. He is a fluent speaker of Russian and Italian.

Zlatoje Martinov is a Serbian publicist and writer.

Milutin Milanković was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer and popularizer of science.

Ognjenka Milićević Lukač was a Bosnian Serb director, acting professor, and theatre expert. She was a daughter of the prominent publicist and professor Nika Milićević (1897–1980). She translated dozens of works from Russian to Serbian language, she is author of the numerous essays, studies, and avocations from the theatrics, acting, and directing. She was the author and the main editor of the monographs of the Ljiljana Krstić and Petar Kralj, regarding Dobričin prsten award laureate. She was member of the managing council of the Atelje 212 Theatre, and later Yugoslav Drama Theatre. Founder and supervisor of the drama studio in the National Theater in Sarajevo, founder of Festival of monodrama and mime in Belgrade, and teacher of the Acting and History of the theater in the Faculty of the Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.

Ranko Munitić was a theorist, critic, journalist and art historian – one of the most important experts on popular culture and media in Yugoslavia.

Nikanor Grujić was the Serbian Orthodox bishop of Pakrac, the locum tenens Serbian Patriarch, the Austro–Hungarian emperor's Privy Councilor, knight of the Grand Cross of the Franz Joseph order, member of Houses of Magnates at Hungarian and Croatian–Slavonian parliaments, member of Serbian Learned Society, writer, poet, orator and translator.

Tomislav Nikolić is a Serbian politician who served as the President of Serbia from 2012 to 2017. He is also the founder of the Serbian Progressive Party, and he led the party until his election as president. In the 2012 presidential election, he was elected to a five-year term as president in a second round of voting.

Aleksandar Novaković is a Serbian writer and playwright.

Milorad Pavić was a Serbian novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary historian. Born in Belgrade in 1929, he published a number of poems, short stories and novels during his lifetime, the most famous of which was the Dictionary of the Khazars (1984). Upon its release, it was hailed as "the first novel of the 21st century." Pavić's works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He was vastly popular in Europe and in South America, and was deemed "one of the most intriguing writers from the beginning of the 21st century." He won numerous prizes in Serbia and in the former Yugoslavia, and was mentioned several times as a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Belgrade in 2009.

Borislav Pekić was a Yugoslav writer and political activist. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his emigration to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade. He was also one of the founding members of the Democratic Party in Serbia.

Rajko Petrov Nogo is a Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic.

Zoran Petrović was a Serbian poet, novelist, and screenwriter.

Slobodan Savić is a Serbian journalist, writer and critic.

Isidora Sekulić was a Serbian writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic. She was "the first woman academic in the history of Serbia".

Slobodan Selenić was a Serbian writer, literary critic, dramatist, academic and university professor of 20th century literature.

Svetlana Spajić is a Serbian traditional singer, performer, pedagogue, cultural activist and translator. Apart from performing Serbian traditional music, she is known for cooperation with world-renowned artists like Marina Abramović and Robert Wilson.

Biljana Srbljanović is a Serbian playwright.

Zoran Stefanović is an award-winning Serbian author, publisher and cultural activist, best known as the founder of several cultural networks, including Project Rastko. His works were published and produced in Europe and US.

Jasmina Tešanović is an author, feminist, political activist, translator, and filmmaker.

Miroljub Todorović is a Serbian poet and artist. He is the founder and theoretician of Signalism, an international avant-garde literary and artistic movement. He is also editor-in-chief of the International review "Signal".