Ivo Andric

Novelist and short stories writer, Ivo Andic won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.
He was born in the village of Dolac (Bosnia) in 1892. His literary career as a poet began in 1914 with Hrvatska mlada lirika (Young Croatian Lyrics). After the WW1 he published two books of lyrical prose reflecting his experience of imprisonment during the war. Then followed a long period in which Andric concentrated on the writing of short stories such as Put Alije Djerzeleza (The Trip of Alija Djerzelez) and Pripovetke (Stories). During WW2, Andric wrote his three best works: Na Drini cuprija (The Bridge on the Drina), Travnicka hronika (Bosnian Story), and Gospodjica (The Woman from Sarajevo).
The first two of these works, like most of Andric’s work, deal with Bosnia history. Later, in 1948 he wrote about present-day people and problems: Gospodjica and Nove pripovetke (New Stories). Finally in 1960 he published another collection of stories with the title Lica (Faces) and several essays such as Zapisi o Goji, (Notes on Goya).