Ivo Andrić of Yugoslavia wrote novels, dealing with the history of the Balkans, and won the Nobel Prize of 1961 for literature.
Ivan "Ivo" Andrić (Cyrillic: Иво Андрић), a native Bosnian, composed short stories, mainly with life under the Ottoman Empire. His house in Travnik now functions as a museum. His flat on Andrićev Venac in Belgrade hosts the museum of and the foundation.
After the Second World War, he spent most of his time in his home at Belgrade, held ceremonial posts in the Communist government, and served as a parliamentarian of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also joined as a member of the Serbian academy of sciences and arts.
In 1961, people awarded him "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country." He donated the money to libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
His works include
The Bridge on the Drina
,
Bosnian Chronicle
(also known as
Chronicles of Travnik
), and
The Woman from Sarajevo
. He lived quietly in Belgrade during World War II and published in 1945. People often referred to this "Bosnian trilogy," published simultaneously in the same period. Only themes, however, connect them.
Other works include
Ex Ponto
(1918),
Unrest
(Nemiri, '20),
The Journey of Alija Đerzelez
(Put Alije Đerzeleza, 1920),
The Vizier's Elephant
(Priča o vezirovom slonu, 1948; translated 1962),
The Damned Yard
(Prokleta avlija, 1954), and
Omer-Pasha Latas
(Omerpaša Latas, released posthumously in 1977).