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Ivo Andri'c, recipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Travnik, Bosnia. His father died when he was three years old, and he was reared by his mother and aunt. He joined the student organization MLADA BOSNA (YOUNG BOSNIA) in his youth. He spent three years in prison after he was arrested in 1914 because of his revolutionary alliances. He was educated at the Universities of Zagreb, Vienna, Krakow, and Graz.
Andri'c published his first book, EX PONTO, when he was 26. He gained his reputation as a writer with the Bosnian trilogy which consists of TRAVNICKA CHRONIKA (BOSNIAN CHRONICLE), NA DRINI CUPRIJA (THE BRIDGE ON THE DRINA), and GOSPODJICA (THE WOMAN FROM SARAJEVO).
Ivo Andri'c died in Belgrade in 1975.
CHRONOLOGY
1892 He was born in Travnik, Bosnia. (October 10)
1914 He was arrested after Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated.
1918 EX PONTO
1920 NEMIRI; PUT ALIJE DJERZELEDA; He began his service as a Yugoslavian diplomat.
1924 PRIPOVETKE I; He received his doctorate from the University of Graz.
1941 He resigned as a diplomat.
1945 TRAVNICKA CHRONIKA (BOSNIAN CHRONICLE); NA DRINI CUPRIJA (THE BRIDGE ON THE DRINA); GOSPODJICA (THE WOMAN FROM SARAJEVO)
1947 MOST NA ZEPI
1948 NOVE PRIPOVETKE; PRICA O VEZIROVOM SLONU (THE VIZIER'S ELEPHANT)
1949 VELETOVKI; He was elected to Yugoslav's federal assembly.
1954 PROKLETA AVLIJA (THE DEVIL'S YARD)
1961 He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1975 He died in Belgrade. (March 13)
1976 KUCA NA OSAMI; OMERPASA LATAS
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