Original sentence: He wrote his novels about Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosniak culture in Ottoman era.He wrote his novels in Bosnian and his language variant made a lot of influence in contemporary Bosnian standard language.Mehmed Meša Selimović was a Bosnian writer born in a Bosniak family 1
Edited sentence: (A clear example of this trend is the Bosniak national leader Alija Izetbegović.(From the Selimović's speech to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts when he became a member of Academy.) This situation causes the fact that Bosniak authors consider Meša as Bosniak, as they feel he would have considered himself a Bosniak had that nation existed during his lifetime, while Serbian authors consider him as Serb.He wrote his novels about Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosniak culture in the Ottoman era.He wrote his novels in Serbo-Croatian language and his language variant greatly influenced today's Bosnian standard language.I belong to Serbian literature, while the literature of Bosnia, to which I also belong, I consider only as my geographic literature center, and not a distinct literature of Serbo-Croatian language... I belong, so, to the same nation and literature of Vuk, Matavulj, Stevan Sremac, Borisav Stanković, Petar Kočić, Ivo Andrić, and my deepest kinship with them I don't need to prove.I descend from a Muslim family, from Bosnia, and by nationality I am a Serb.List of Serbs.Many of the people who declared themselves as Serb by nationality and Muslim by religion declare themselves now as Bosniaks.Mehmed Meša Selimović was a Bosnian and Serbian writer born in a Bosniak or Bosnian Muslim family 1.Meša Selimović was one of people who declared himself as a Muslim Serb (and he died before Bosniak national constitution in the 1990s).Selimović is considered to be one of the 100 Greatest Serbs