Ivo Andri was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
Ivan Andri was born in the village of Dolac, near Travnik, onOctober 1892 while his mother, Katarina , was in the town visiting relatives. Andris parents were both Croats, and he was their only child. His father, Antun, was a struggling silversmith who resorted to working as a school janitor in Sarajevo, where he lived with his wife and infant son. Antun died of tuberculosis, like most of his siblings, at the age of thirtytwo. At the time, Andri was only two years old.
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