Included translations of Walt Whitman and of Strindberg. Many of his poems appeared in the literary journal Knjižveni jug, in Zagreb. The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (since 1929 Yugoslavia) inġ918. Whose Either/Or (1843) had a great influence on him.Ī Yugoslav nationalist, Andrić greeted with enthusiasm the creation of His time Andrić devoted to reading the works of Fedor Imprisoned and interned in various places until the Amnesty of 1917. Wife in Sarajevo in 1914, Andrić was arrested as a conspirator and The group, assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his To be allowed to leave Vienna for Cracow. After showing the first signs of tuberculosis he asked Transferred from the university of Zagreb to the university of Vienna However, another passion of the Young Bosnians was literature. Involved between 19 in a dozen terrorist plots of sabotage. Student organization Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnias), which was In his youth Andrić joined the revolutionary nationalist This collection of verses and articles made him one of the most promising writers of his native Bosnia. Nineteen, Andrić published his first poem, entitled 'U sumrak', in Bosanska While at secondary school, he read Don QuixoteĪnd became interested in the work of August Strindberg. He was educated at schools in Višegrad and Sarajevo Theįamily moved then to Višegrad, another little town, where he was raised by his mother, a Three years old when his father, an artisan, died of tuberculosis. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire), into a middle-class family. Ivo Andrić was born in the village of Trávnik in Bosnia (then (from The Bridge on the Drina, 1945, translated by Lovett F. Not only the green Drina, but all that fertile and cultivated Through the broad arches of the white bridge it seems as if one can see Shaws and occasional clumps of evergreens. Plum-orchards, and criss-crossed with walls and fences and dotted with The folds of the hills, covered with meadows, pastures and From this bridge spreadsįanlike the whole rolling valley with the little oriental towns of Višegrad and all its surroundings, with hamlets nestling in The whole force of its green and foaming waters from the apparentlyĬlosed mass of the dark steep mountains, stands a great clean-cut stoneīridge with eleven wide sweeping arches. Isolation, arise from the collision of cultures in the Balkans.

Woman from Sarajevo), which appeared practically simultaneously inġ945. Its central symbol was the bridge. Andrić's work,ĭominated by a sense of Kierkegaardian pessimism and personal Trilogy ( The Bridge on the Drina, Bosnian Chronicle, and The Andrić made his reputation as a novelist with the Balkan War II, he was known primarily for short stories set in his nativeīosnia. Ivo Andrić's literary career spanned some 60 years. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪnd short stories who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature inġ961.

Prokleta avlija by Ivo Andrić