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Ivo Andrić

Serbo-Croatian author
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Gordana P. Crnković
Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington. Author of Imagined Dialogues: Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature.
Gordana P. Crnković
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Ivo Andrić (born Oct. 10, 1892, Dolac, near Travnik, Bosnia—died March 13, 1975, Belgrade, Yugos. [now Serbia]) was a writer of novels and short stories in the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Andrić studied in Poland and Austria. His potential as a writer of both prose and verse was recognized early, and his reputation was established with Ex Ponto (1918), a contemplative, lyrical prose work written during his...

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