Umihana Čuvidina

She is the earliest female author from Bosnia & Herzegovina whose work survives to this day. Čuvidina wrote poems and contributed greatly to the traditional genre of Bosniak folk music, sevdalinka.

She was engaged to a young man named Mujo Čamdži-bajraktar who died as a soldier and as a result of his death, she never married again. She devoted her life to poetry. She wrote her poetry in Arabica (Bosniak variant of the Arabic script used to write the Bosnian language) and paved the way for other women to write and publish their work.