Ivo Andrić

Novelist, Diplomat & Author

(1892 – 1975) · Eastern Europe

Bosnian-Yugoslav novelist and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961, the only author from the former Yugoslavia to do so. His novel The Bridge on the Drina is an epic spanning four centuries of life in Bosnia. His work explored the long history of conflict and coexistence between the peoples of the Balkans.