Ivo Andric

Ivo Andrić (1892–1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, short-story writer, and diplomat, born in Travnik in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. Writing primarily in Serbo-Croatian, he drew on the history and multicultural tensions of the Balkans, especially Bosnia under Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian rule. Andrić served in the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and was posted in several European capitals, including Berlin. His most celebrated novel, *The Bridge on the Drina* (1945), traces centuries of life around a stone bridge in Višegrad. In 1961 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.