Ivo Andrić - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1961
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Ivo Andrić

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1961
for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country
Citizenship
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and SlovenesKingdom of Serbs, Croats and SlovenesKingdom of YugoslaviaKingdom of YugoslaviaCisleithaniaCisleithaniaState of Slovenes, Croats and SerbsState of Slovenes, Croats and SerbsSocialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Languages
Serbo-Croatian, Serbian
date of birth
10/10/1892
place of birth
Dolac
date of death
3/13/1975
place of death
Belgrade
Lived
82 years
occupation
  • essayist
  • short story writer
  • diplomat
  • writer
  • poet
  • novelist
field of work
  • literature
educated at
  • University of Vienna
    • academic major: philosophy
    • start time: 1913
  • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
    • academic major: study of history
    • academic major: Slavic literature
    • start time: October 1912
  • University of Graz
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • academic major: philosophy
    • start time: 1924
  • Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University
    • academic major: philosophy
    • start time: 1914
position held
  • ambassador
member of
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • start time: 2/18/1926
    • end time: 2/16/1939
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • start time: 2/16/1939
    • end time: 3/13/1975
  • Association of Writers of Serbia
  • Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • start time: 12/23/1969
  • Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Young Bosnia
notable work
  • The Bridge on the Drina
  • Devil's Yard
  • O priči i pričanju
  • Omerpaša Latas
  • Ex Ponto
  • Jelena, the Woman Who Is Not
  • Most na Žepi
  • Bosnian Chronicle
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