42 Serbian dramatists and playwrights

Matija Ban was a Serbian poet, dramatist, and playwright, born in the city of Dubrovnik. He settled in Serbia in 1844, and engaged in various diplomatic missions in service of the Principality of Serbia.

Dragomir Brzak was a Serbian dramatist, poet, translator and travel writer. Most of his poetry was turned into song. He is also remembered for translating Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream."

Filip David is a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, short stories and novels. In 2015, he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel "Kuća sećanja i zaborava".

Mladen Dražetin was a doctor of social sciences, Serbian intellectual, economist, theatrical creator, poet, writer and philosopher. His father Rada was a courier in the Local Community Office in Mošorin, while his mother Vukica was from Sombor. He left behind works of poetry, prose, drama and philosophy. He was the creator of the Correspondence Theatre, a specific type of theater organization and play, which he conceived and organized in 1974.

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

Dragutin Ilić was a Serbian playwright, poet, novelist, journalist and politician. Dragutin Ilić, playwright who, with Matija Ban and Djordje Maletić, dominated the Serbian stage in the late 19th century.

Georgije "Đura" Jakšić was a Serbian poet, painter, writer, dramatist and bohemian.

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.

Goran Jevtić is a Serbian actor and director. During his two decade long career, Jevtić has composed a prolific range of performances notable in film, television and theater. He has received critical praise for his Shakespearean interpretations in European-based theatres, with roles as Romeo Montague in Romeo and Juliet in Verona, Macbeth in Macbeth in Zagreb, Prince Hamlet in Hamlet in Belgrade, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice in Rome and Gaius Marcius Coriolanus in Coriolanus. Other than his prominent work in theatre, his notable film credits include Mirko in The Parade, Mitar in In the Land of Blood and Honey, Miloš in Life Is a Miracle and Andreja in the We're Not Angels franchise.

Lazar Komarčić was a Serbian pioneer science-fiction writer who today has a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. He was a novelist, playwright and best known for his profound influence on what was to become later the literary genres of science fiction and crime novels. He was the most widely read author during the second half of the nineteenth and the turn of the century, according to literary critic Jovan Skerlić. Unfortunately, science fiction and crime novel writing at the beginning of the 20th century was not considered a literary pursuit and as time passed he was forgotten until the 1970s when his works were revived. He was a contemporary of Jules Verne, Camille Flammarion, and H. G. Wells.

Dušan Kovačević is a Serbian playwright, scriptwriter, film director and academic best known for his theatre plays and movie scripts. He also served as the ambassador of Serbia in Lisbon, Portugal.

Siniša Kovačević is a Serbian author, playwright, politician and professor of the Belgrade Academy of Arts.

Branislav Lečić is a Serbian actor, director, academic, writer and politician. Known for his versatile portrayals of emotionally vulnerable characters with strong senses of moral justice, Lečić rose to prominence for his role as the rebellious Crni in twelve-episode mini-series Sivi dom (1986).

Georgije Magarašević, was a Serbian writer, historian, bibliographer, editor and publisher, dramatist, translator and collector of folk proverbs. He belongs to the same generation of Serbian writers as Dimitrije Davidović, Teodor Pavlović, Danilo Medaković, all of whom expressed in some degree their indebtedness to Dositej Obradović and Vuk Karadžić.

Predrag "Miki" Manojlović is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of former Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he successfully branched out into movies made outside the Balkans and became active in productions all over Europe.

Borislav "Mihiz" Mihajlović was a Serbian writer and literary critic.

Simeon "Sima" Milutinović "Sarajlija" was a poet, hajduk, translator, historian and adventurer. Literary critic Jovan Skerlić dubbed him the first Serbian romantist.

Milica Jakovljević, pen name Mir-Jam, was a Serbian writer whose many period novels have been successfully adapted to popular TV series.

Aleksandar Novaković is a Serbian writer and playwright.

Branislav Nušić was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist, novelist and founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil servant. He was often referred to as the Serbian and Balkan Gogol.

Vida Ognjenović is a Serbian theater director, playwright, writer, drama professor and diplomat.

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.

Radoslav (Lale) Pavlović is a Serbian writer. Pavlovic authored numerous theatre plays and film/TV scripts popular with the audience and acclaimed by the critics. He is best known for his theatre plays Šovinistička farsa, performed more than a thousand times across ex-Yugoslavia, Mala, and Moja Draga performed for hundreds of times in Belgrade theaters, as well as movies Balkan Rules (1997), Living like the rest of us (1983), Hajde da se volimo 3 (1990) featuring ex-Yugoslavia mega-star Lepa Brena, and TV series Moj Rodjak sa Sela (2008) scoring record viewership of over 3 million viewers per episode.

Borislav Pekić was a Serbian writer and political activist.

Bratislav Petković is a Serbian film director, playwright, theater director, founder and director of the Automobile Museum and Modern Garage Theater in Belgrade.

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

Jovan Sterija Popović was a Serbian playwright, poet, lawyer, philosopher and pedagogue who taught at the Belgrade Higher School. Sterija was recognized by his contemporaries as the one of the leading Serbian intellectuals and he is regarded as one of the best comic playwrights in Serbian literature.

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

Zoran Spasojević, is a Serbian writer.

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.

Radosav Stojanović is a Serbian writer, journalist and lexicographer.

Miroslava "Mira" Stupica was a Serbian actress best known for her work in the theater, but also had extensive career on television and in films. Enjoying the enduring popularity for over 60 years and celebrated as the ‘actress of the century’ by her peers, she is considered one of the best Serbian actresses of all time.

Ljubomir "Ljuba" Tadić was a Serbian actor who enjoyed a reputation as one of the greatest names in the history of former Yugoslav cinema.

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

Toma Smiljanić, known by his nickname Bradina, was Serbian ethnographer, philologist, dramatist and publicist from what is today North Macedonia.

Mira Trailović was a Serbian dramaturg and one of the most distinguished theatre directors in the history of Serbian and Yugoslav theatre. A pioneer of the avant-garde theatre in Eastern Europe, she was one of the founders and a driving force behind the Atelje 212 theater and BITEF, one of the most important European theatre festivals

Dušan Vasiljev was a Serbian poet, novelist and playwright. He was one of the most significant Serbian expressionists.

Milovan Vitezović is a Serbian writer, professor and screenwriter. He writes songs, novels, essays, reviews, aphorisms, movies and TV scripts. He has published more than forty books in over one hundred and fifty items, represented in over fifty anthology Serbian and international poetry, prose literature for children, aphorism and fantasy, fiction and television drama.

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

Božidar Zečević is а Serbian filmologist, film historian, dramatist, screenwriter, director, university professor of film analysis, founder and editor-in-chief of the film journal Filmograf.

Štefan "Stevo" Žigon was a Slovenian and Serbian actor, theatre director, and writer.