Mehmed "Meša" Selimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мехмед „Меша” Селимовић; pronounced [mɛ̌xmɛd mɛ̌ːʃa sɛlǐːmɔʋitɕ]; 26 April 1910 – 11 July 1982) was a Yugoslav writer, whose novel Death and the Dervish is one of the most important literary works in post-World War II Yugoslavia. Some of the main themes in his works are the relations between individuality and authority, life and death, and other existential problems.

Selimović graduated in philosophy from the University of Belgrade. He participated in the national liberation committee since 1941. He was a member of the academy of arts and sciences of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia and is an honorary doctorate from the University of Sarajevo.

He is considered one of the greatest Bosnian writers of the 20th century and his works deeply explore the culture of the Bosniak inhabitants of the Ottoman province of Bosnia.