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Ivo Andrić

1892–1975 · 20th century

Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist and diplomat born in Bosnia. His novels, above all The Bridge on the Drina (1945), trace the history of Bosnia under Ottoman and Austrian rule. He served as a diplomat of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, including as envoy in Berlin in 1939–1941, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.

Ivo Andrić
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