The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961
Awarded on: 1961-10-26
"for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"
Ivo Andrić
Born: 1892-10-10 in Dolac, Bosnia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Gender: male
Field: Yugoslav writer and Nobel laureate (1892–1975)
Biography
Ivo Andrić 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.