Ivo Andrić

Ivo Andric was born in 1892 in Dolac, near Travnik, in Bosnia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was raised by relatives in Visegrad, the town whose bridge would become the centerpiece of his greatest novel. As a young man, he was involved in the South Slav nationalist movement and was imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian authorities during the First World War. He studied history and philosophy in Zagreb, Vienna, Krakow, and Graz, and entered the Yugoslav diplomatic service, serving as ambassador to Nazi Germany before the outbreak of the Second World War. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Bridge on the Drina.