Ivo Andrić

Yugoslav novelist (1892-1975) · Serbia · Writers · Died at 82

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A Yugoslav diplomat who spent World War II locked in a Belgrade apartment writing novels about Ottoman Bosnia - then won the Nobel over Tolkien, Frost, and Steinbeck for "epic force" drawn from his country's buried past.

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A life in dates

1975Died13 March 19751972Order of the Hero of Socialist LabourAward1961Nobel Prize in LiteratureAward1945“For the greater part of its course the river Drina flows through narrow gorges between steep mountains or through deep ravines with precipitous banks.”In their wordsCh. 1, first linesRead the whole statement

“The common people remember and tell of what they are able to grasp and what they are able to transform into legend.”In their wordsCh. 2Read the whole statement

“Lost in his thoughts he looked out from his shop at the shining loveliness of that first day of March.”In their wordsCh. 17Read the whole statement

“The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them.”In their wordsCh. 22Read the whole statement

“The bridge remained as if under sentence of death, but none the less still whole and untouched, between the two warring sides.”In their wordsCh. 23Read the whole statement

“If they destroy here, then somewhere else someone else is building. Surely there are still peaceful countries and men of good sense who know of God's love?”In their wordsCh. 24Read the whole statement

1937Order of the German EagleAward1892Born10 October 1892

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S. Kragujevic, Ivo Andric, 1961

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Ivo Andrić

9 statements, newest first

For the greater part of its course the river Drina flows through narrow gorges between steep mountains or through deep ravines with precipitous banks.
1945, Ch. 1, first lines, Own words
The common people remember and tell of what they are able to grasp and what they are able to transform into legend.
1945, Ch. 2, Own words
Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.
1945, Ch. 17, Own words

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Awards

Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour1972

Nobel Prize in Literature1961

Order of the German Eagle1937

In their orbit

Spouse: Milica Babić-Jovanović

About this person

Born in Travnik in 1892, Andrić joined South Slav youth movements in Sarajevo and was arrested after Franz Ferdinand's assassination in 1914, spending much of the Great War under house arrest though authorities never proved his involvement in the plot. He earned a PhD in South Slavic literature, worked as a diplomat for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and by 1939 was ambassador to Germany - a post that ended with the Nazi invasion in April 1941. He returned to German-occupied Belgrade and spent the war in a friend's apartment under conditions like confinement, writing *The Bridge on the Drina* and other works about life in Bosnia under Ottoman rule. In 1961 the Nobel Committee gave him the prize for literature, citing how he traced human destinies from his country's history. His health collapsed in late 1974 and he died in Belgrade the following March.

Country

Serbia

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Vladimir PogačićAlso in Legends of Anika (1954)

Ljubinka BobićAlso in Legends of Anika (1954)

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