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Ivo Andrić

1892 - 1975

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Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић, pronounced [ǐːʋo ǎːndritɕ]; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule. Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivo Andrić is the 124th most popular writer (down from 121st in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Writer.

Ivo Andrić was a Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer. He is most famous for his novel The Bridge on the Drina, which is about the Ottoman Empire's occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Among writers, Ivo Andrić ranks 124 out of 7,302. Before him are Hafez, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ismail I, Mario Vargas Llosa, Federico García Lorca, and Muhammad Iqbal. After him are Naguib Mahfouz, Jane Austen, Ammianus Marcellinus, Apuleius, Sully Prudhomme, and Jean de La Fontaine.

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Among people born in 1892, Ivo Andrić ranks 8. Before him are Haile Selassie, Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, Edward Victor Appleton, Louis de Broglie, and Mary Pickford. After him are Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, Manfred von Richthofen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Among people deceased in 1975, Ivo Andrić ranks 6. Before him are Haile Selassie, Chiang Kai-shek, Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, and Dmitri Shostakovich. After him are Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Robert Robinson, and Otto Skorzeny.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivo Andrić ranks 2 out of 375. Before him are Gavrilo Princip (1894). After him are Ratko Mladić (1942), Valerius Severus (300), Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (1505), Alija Izetbegović (1925), Ante Pavelić (1889), Emir Kusturica (1954), Vladimir Prelog (1906), Goran Bregović (1950), Zoran Đinđić (1952), and Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338).

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Among WRITERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among writers born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivo Andrić ranks 1. After him are Meša Selimović (1910), Branko Ćopić (1915), Petar Kočić (1877), Jovan Dučić (1871), Aleksa Šantić (1868), Mak Dizdar (1917), Abdulah Sidran (1944), Predrag Matvejević (1932), Isak Samokovlija (1889), Filip Višnjić (1767), and Staka Skenderova (1828).

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