Ivo Andrić - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1961
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Ivo Andrić

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1961
for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country
Citizenship
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Kingdom of Yugoslavia Kingdom of Yugoslavia Cisleithania Cisleithania State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Languages
Serbo-Croatian, Serbian
date of birth
10/10/1892
place of birth
Dolac
date of death
3/13/1975
place of death
Belgrade
Lived
82 years
educated at
  • Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University
    • academic major: philosophy
    • start time: 1914
  • University of Graz
    • academic major: philosophy
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • start time: 1924
  • University of Vienna
    • academic major: philosophy
    • start time: 1913
  • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
    • academic major: study of history
    • academic major: Slavic literature
    • start time: October 1912
member of
  • Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • start time: 12/23/1969
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • end time: 3/13/1975
    • start time: 2/16/1939
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • end time: 2/16/1939
    • start time: 2/18/1926
  • Young Bosnia
  • Association of Writers of Serbia
  • Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
occupation
  • novelist
  • essayist
  • short story writer
  • poet
  • writer
  • diplomat
notable work
  • Most na Žepi
  • Bosnian Chronicle
  • Devil's Yard
  • The Bridge on the Drina
  • O priči i pričanju
  • Omerpaša Latas
  • Ex Ponto
  • Jelena, the Woman Who Is Not
position held
  • ambassador
field of work
  • literature
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