Ivo Andrić

Ivo Andrić was born on 9 October 1892 in Dolac, near Travnik, and grew up in Višegrad. A schoolboy in Sarajevo, he was active in South Slav youth organisations; arrested after the assassination of June 1914, he went through the prisons of Split and Maribor, then internment. He studied in Zagreb, Vienna, Kraków and Graz, where he defended a thesis on the spiritual life of Bosnia under Ottoman rule, then served the Kingdom of Yugoslavia as a diplomat up to his post as ambassador in Berlin. Nobel Prize winner in 1961, he died in Belgrade on 13 March 1975.

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• NovelThe Bridge on the DrinaNa Drini ćuprijaIvo Andrić · 1945Literature