36 Yugoslav writers

Gjorgji Abadžiev was a Macedonian prosaist and publicist. From 1915 to 1948 he lived in Bulgaria where he studied at the Faculty of Law in Sofia (1932-1937). Later he moved to SR Macedonia where he became a historian and writer. Abadžiev died on August 2, 1963 in Skopje. He published his works in Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian.

Fehmi Agani was a sociologist and politician in Kosovo who was considered to be the leading thinker and political strategist of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) in the 1990s. He represented the LDK in international negotiations prior to the 1998–1999 Kosovo War but was murdered, apparently by Yugoslav security forces, during the war.

Petre Mito Andreevski was a famous Macedonian poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. His most famous novel is the historical novel Pirej (1980) and his most famous poetry collection is Denicija (1968).

Ivo Andrić was a Serbian novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.

Niko Bartulović was an Austro-Hungarian and later Yugoslav writer, publisher, journalist and translator known for being one of the founders and ideologists of the Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists in 1921. He joined the Chetniks during World War II.

Svetislav Basara is a Serbian writer and columnist.

France Bevk was a Slovene writer, poet and translator. He also wrote under the pseudonym Pavle Sedmak.

Laura Papo Bohoreta, was a Bosnian Jewish feminist, writer, and translator who devoted her research to the condition of the Sephardic women in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is considered the first Sephardic Jewish and Balkan feminist.

Nikola "Kole" Chashule was a Macedonian essayist, dramatist, short story writer and ambassador. Chashule was one of the founders of the Macedonian Writers' Association and served as the organization's president.

Hamid Dizdar was a Bosnian writer and poet. His younger brother Mak Dizdar was also a prominent poet.

Mehmedalija "Mak" Dizdar was a Bosnian poet. His poetry combined influences from the Bosnian Christian culture, Islamic mysticism and cultural remains of medieval Bosnia, and especially the stećci.

Milovan Đilas was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, as well as in the post-war government. A self-identified democratic socialist, Đilas became one of the best-known and most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and all of Eastern Europe.

Slavenka Drakulić is a Croatian journalist, novelist, and essayist whose works on feminism, communism, and post-communism have been translated into many languages.

Mirjana Gross was a notable Yugoslav-Croatian Jewish historian and writer.

Avdo Humo was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician, writer and an Order of the People's Hero recipient.

Vasil Iljoski (Macedonian: Васил Иљоски, was a Macedonian writer, dramatist, professor and an important figure in Macedonian literature, especially in Macedonian drama between the two World Wars.

Danilo Kiš was a Serbian and a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. His best known works include Hourglass, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead.

Edvard Kocbek was a Slovenian poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans. He is considered as one of the best authors who have written in Slovene, and one of the best Slovene poets after Prešeren. His political role during and after World War II made him one of the most controversial figures in Slovenia in the 20th century.

Blaže Koneski was a Yugoslav and Macedonian poet, writer, literary translator, and linguistic scholar. His major contribution was to the codification of the standard Macedonian language. He is the key figure who shaped Macedonian literature and intellectual life in the country. However Koneski has been accused of serbianizing the Macedonian standard language.

Ivan Goran Kovačić was a Croatian poet and writer.

Miroslav Krleža was a Croatian writer and a prominent figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom (1918–1941) and the Socialist Republic. A one time Vice President and General Secretary of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU), he has often been proclaimed the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century and beyond.

Vitomir Lukić, was a Yugoslav prose writer and pedagogue, considered to be one of the greatest writers to emerge from Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 20th century.

Mateja Matevski was a Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator.

Mihajlo Mihajlov was a Serbian author, academic and publicist.

Vesna Parun was a Croatian poet.

Božin Pavlovski is a Macedonian-Australian novelist whose works have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has lived in Australia for the past three decades and is in the prime of his creative life. He is a novelist–mediator between two cultures whose novels interpret the binary logic by which his characters are both “here” and in the country in which they were born or originate from. In his latest novel 'Gardener, Desert’ (2015), Pavlovski transmits through a Romanesque lens his vision of the transnational, cosmopolitan, multilingual and hybrid map of the world.

Mihail Petruševski was a Yugoslav Macedonian academic, philologist and founder of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Skopje University. He published over 200 philosophic works, but his translation of Homer's "Iliad" and his adaptation of "Skanderbeg" by Grigor Parlichev were considered particularly significant for Macedonian culture.

Rexhep Qosja (born 1936 in Vusanje, Zeta Banovina is a prominent Albanian writer and literary critic from a part of Malësia in modern Montenegro. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pristina and graduated with a master's degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology in 1968.

Mehmed "Meša" Selimović was a Yugoslav writer, whose novel Death and the Dervish is one of the most important literary works in post-Second World War Yugoslavia. Some of the main themes in his works are the relations between individuality and authority, life and death, and other existential problems.

Aco Šopov was a Macedonian poet. He was considered one of the most important poets of Yugoslavia. He took part in World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–45) and his poems written at the time were published as Pesni (Poems) in Belgrade and Kumanovo in 1944, and in Štip the following year. Pesni was the first poetry collection published in the Macedonian language in SR Macedonia after the war.

Goran Stefanovski was a leading Macedonian dramatist, screenwriter, essayist, lecturer and public intellectual. He wrote for the theatre, television and film, as well as pursuing a long academic career in teaching creative writing for the theatre and film.

Dragan "Gane" Todorovski was a Macedonian poet, translator, essayist literary critic and historian, publicist. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, University SS. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, where he gained his Ph.D. with the thesis "Slavs Veda and its mystificators". Worked as a journalist with "Tanjug", "Mlad borec" and "Studentski zbor".

Zaim Topčić was a Bosnian writer, renowned for his novels. He is one of the few writers who have twice won the Annual Award of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for novels Lump of Sun and Black Snows.

Dubravka Ugrešić is a writer born and raised in Yugoslavia. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she has been based in Amsterdam since 1996.

Svetozar Vlajković is a Serbian radio journalist, writer, screenwriter, playwright and laureate of the Isidora Sekulić Award in 1971.

Ivo Vojnović was a writer from Dubrovnik.