The Društvo pisaca Bosne i Hercegovine, founded in 1993 by Zlatko Topčić,[1] is the legal successor of the Udruženje književnika Bosne i Hercegovine, which was founded on 8 September 1945 by Marko Marković, Isak Samokovlija, Skender Kulenović and Emil Petrović.
[2] Following the end of the World War II in Yugoslavia the association of writers in newly established Yugoslav federal unit of People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina started their coordinated activities in October 1945.
[3] The formal founding assembly of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina was held on 20 February 1947 which selected Isak Samokovlija as its first president and Emil S. Petrović as a secretary.
[3] Meša Selimović was elected as the president of the Association in 1962, the same year in which "Sarajevo Poetry Days" were initiated.
The other members of the presidency are Jagoda Iličić, Damir Uzunović, Miro Petrović, Aleksandra Čvorović and Goran Karanović.