Ivo Andric (Author)
Ivo Andric was born in 1892 in Travnik, Bosnia of Croat parents and
grew up alongside Orthodox Christians, Moslems and Roman Catholics
in Visegrad, the town on the banks of the Drina where his book is
set. Until 1941 he served as a Yugoslav diplomat, then, placed
under house arrest in Belgrade by the occupying Germans, Andric
turned to writing. In 1961 he was awarded the Noble prize for
literature. He died in 1975.
In high school, one Saturday, I started reading a book by the
Yugoslav novelist Ivo Andric: The Bridge on the Drina. By
the time I finished it something in me had shifted forever * New
Statesman *
Despite its scale, what makes the book extraordinary is the tender
insight with which it treats these individual lives, whether
Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim or Jewish * Independent *
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