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The page of Andrić, Ivo, English biography

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Andrić, Ivo
(Иван Иво Андрић)
(1892–1975)
1961
 

Biography

Ivan "Ivo" Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Иво Андрић) (9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. His native house in Travnik has been transformed into a Museum, and his Belgrade flat on Andrićev Venac hosts the Museum of Ivo Andrić, and Ivo Andrić Foundation. Ivan Andrić was born on 9 October 1892, to Bosnian Croat parents in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of Austria-Hungary. He was born as Ivan, but became known by the diminutive Ivo. When Andrić was two years old, his father Antun died. Because his mother Katarina was too poor to support him, he was raised by his mother's family in the town of Višegrad on the river Drina in eastern Bosnia, where he saw the 16th-century Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, later made famous in his novel The Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini ćuprija).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Andri%C4%87

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