Literature · Politics · 1892–1975
Born: 9 October 1892 · Died: 13 March 1975 · Age at death: 82
Ivo Andrić died aged 82. He was born on 9 October 1892 and died on 13 March 1975.
Yugoslav novelist of The Bridge on the Drina, a sweeping history of Bosnia, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Did you know?He donated all of the prize money from his Nobel award to improve libraries in his native Bosnia.
Ivo Andrić wrote the great novels of Bosnia. He grew up in Višegrad, beside the old Ottoman bridge over the Drina. As a young man he was jailed for his links to the Young Bosnia movement. He later became a diplomat for Yugoslavia and was envoy in Berlin when war began. During the occupation he wrote quietly in Belgrade. The Bridge on the Drina follows four centuries of life around that bridge. In 1961 the Swedish Academy honoured him with the Nobel Prize.
Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић, pronounced; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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Yugoslav writer, 1892–1975
Ivo Andrić was born near Travnik, Bosnia, on 9 October 1892.
He grew up in Višegrad.
The Bridge on the Drina appeared in 1945.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.
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Did you know?He gave his Nobel prize money to buy books for libraries in Bosnia.
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