Osman Đikić (Serbian Cyrillic: Осман Ђикић; 7 January 1879 – 30 March 1912) was a Serb poet from Bosnia,[1] dramatist and writer.

[4] Osman Đikić married Serbian actress Zora Topalović[4] (or Mihailović[5][better source needed]) in Vienna in 1905.

He later served as the editor of the Mostar-based newspaper Musavat (Unity) in 1907, as well as published pieces in the Bosansko-hercegovački glasnik (Bosnian-Herzegovinian Herald).

Osman Đikić is a renowned Bosnian and Herzegovinian poet and dramatist,[6] who established himself as part of literary creation of Muslim writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Austro-Hungarian rule.

[9] Đikić later independently published two poem compilations: Muslimanskoj mladeži ("To the Muslim Youth") in Dubrovnik in 1902 and Ašiklije (Lovers) in Mostar in 1903.

However, this policy was not widely accepted by the three major ethnic groups of the nation - Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, who each sought to promote their own nationalist aspirations.

[5][better source needed] Đikić adopted a profound feelings for Serbian nationalism and became a proponent of a unified South-Slavonic state (Yugoslavia).

[5][better source needed] In 1936, Belgrade-based architect, Aleksandar Deroko, designed and constructed a brick türbe (mausoleum) in pseudo-Moorish architecture[12] for Đikić's remains.

[12] The Yugoslav government helped establish a cultural organization, Osman-Đikić-Gajret, independent from the Gajret, in 1923, and at the same time founded a student house with the same name for Bosnian Muslims in Belgrade.