Because of the discontinuation of several other Tuzla football clubs, like Obilić nad Bura, many players transferred to Sloboda and in 1928 it had a formidable team that consisted of the following players: Asim Mulaosmanović, Muho Mujeznović, Dejan Vujasinović, Mujko Mešković, Meša Selimović, Abdurahman Mujezinović Smrt, Vlado Mileusnić, Karlo Mot, Ivan Majer and others.
In May 1989, Gimnazija was renamed to "Meša Selimović", after the renowned author and its most famous alumnus.
He also wrote a book about Vuk Karadžić's orthographic reforms, an elderly couple facing the aging and eventual death on a Dalmatian island, as well as his autobiography, Sjećanja.
Meša Selimović (1910–1982), Yugoslav writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
She has received numerous awards and prizes for her work, including the Isidora Sekulić, Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimović, Đorđe Jovanović, Borisav Stanković and Pera Todorović prizes.
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Goran Petrović has won the Borislav Pekić Fund Scholarship; the "Prosveta Award"; the "Meša Selimović Award"; as well as various other awards: the "Charter of Rača", "Golden Bestseller" and "Vital Award"; the National Library of Serbia Award; the "Most widely read Book Award" (NIN, 2001); the "October Award of the City of Kraljevo"; finally, the "Borislav Stanković Award".
The Bosnian writer Meša Selimović wrote the book "The Dervish and Death" about a Mevlevi dergah in Sarajevo.