Ivo Andri

BIOGRAPHY
LIFE

Ivo Andri, the Serbian writer was born on 9th of

October 1892 in the Bosnian town Travnik.
He died in Serbia, on 13 March, 1975.
Ivo Andri was a great writer of twentieth century.
Andri's father, a silversmith, died when Andri was
three years old. Andri then went to live with his
aunt and uncle in the town of Viegrad, the town that
he associated the most with his childhood.
EARLY WORK

Throughout Andri's diplomatic career, he continued

to write and his literary reputation in Yugoslavia.
In the years just after the First World War, Andri
published Ex Ponto (From the Bridge) in 1918
and Nemiri (Troubles) in 1920, both collections of
prose poems. He wrote part of Ex Ponto while in
prison.
IVO ANDRI
THE NOBEL PRIZE

Andri was very active in the postwar years.

Andri earned numerous awards and honors, but the
high point of his international recognition came
when he was awarded (in 1962) the 1961 Nobel Prize
for Literature. Following this award, Andri's
international reputation grew enormously.
For his part, the now 70-year-old donated all of his
prize money to the library fund in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. In the 1960s and 1970s his literary
output slowed as his health deteriorated, especially
after the death of his wife.
The Bridge on the Drina and The Days of the
Consuls dealt with life in Bosnia under the Ottoman
Empire The Bridge on the Drina, his most famous
work, describes the relations between Orthodox
Christian Serbs and Muslims in the town of Viegrad
in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the
centuries of the Ottoman occupation.
LITERARY CLASSIFICAION

Andri's works are hard to classify: he was a Serbian

writer, writing in both Serbian and Croatian.
The majority of his works were written in the
Serbian language.
He is claimed as part of Croatian literature, Serbian
literature, and Bosnian literature. His works are
written soberly, in language of great beauty and
purity.
Collections of his short stories were published at
intervals from 1920 onward.