Nikola Koljević

Nikola Koljević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Кољевић; 9 June 1936 – 25 January 1997) was a Serbian politician, university professor, translator and an essayist, one of the foremost Yugoslavian Shakespeare scholars. In 2016, he was posthumously declared by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to have been part of a criminal enterprise aimed at expelling Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia In the 2016 verdict against Radovan Karadžić, the U.N.-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) identified Koljević as part of a Joint criminal enterprise, which included Karadžić. It described that Koljević was "particularly extreme in his view" and advocated for the expulsion of Bosnian Muslims in order to create homogeneity of territories, and said that it was "impossible for Serbs to live with anyone else":

Having taught Shakespeare for many years at the University of Sarajevo, his later involvement in Serbian nationalist politics had taken aback his former Muslim students, with many of whom he had remained good friends after graduating, because he had never before shown the slightest trace of prejudice.

Works Teorijski osnovi nove kritike, 1967 O uporednom i sporednom, 1977 Ikonoborci i ikonobranitelji, 1978 Šekspir, tragičar, 1981 Pesnik iza pesme, 1984 "Tajna" poznog Dučića: interpretacija, 1985 "Lament nad Beogradom" Miloša Crnjanskog, 1986 Klasici srpskog pesništva, 1987 Otadžbinske teme, 1995 Andrićevo remek-delo, 1995 Od Platona do Dejtona: (zapisi o državi našim povodom), 1996