WRITER

Ivo Andrić

1892 - 1975

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Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић, pronounced [ǐːʋo ǎːndritɕ]; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) 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. Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivo Andrić has received more than 785,137 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Ivo Andrić is the 121st most popular writer (up from 149th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Writer.

Ivo Andrić was a Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer. He is most famous for his novel The Bridge on the Drina, which is about the Ottoman Empire's occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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  • 790k

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  • 75.99

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  • 90

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Travnička hronika
Fiction, History
1967
Na Drini ćuprija
Historic bridges, History, Fiction
A critically acclaimed novel, first published in 1945, describing historic and social events centring on a bridge across the River Drina at Visegrad in modern day Bosnia Herzegovina, originally built by the ruling Grand Vizier of Turkey. For almost four hundred years this bridge is crucial to the social life and wealth of the town’s citizens and equally vital to first the Turkish Empire and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Eventually Bosnia-Herzegovina becomes a republic in the new Yugoslavia, free for the first time in hundreds of years.
1959
Gospođica
1965
Prokleta avlija
1965
Ex ponto
Short stories
1977

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Over the past year Ivo Andrić has had the most page views in the with 112,588 views, followed by English (88,854), and Croatian (69,747). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Tajik (902.78%), Hakka (230.52%), and Konkani (91.97%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivo Andrić ranks 121 out of 7,302. Before him are Sully Prudhomme, Federico García Lorca, Anatole France, Jean Cocteau, Guy de Maupassant, and Charles Bukowski. After him are Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Verlaine, and François Villon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Ivo Andrić ranks 5. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien, Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, and Manfred von Richthofen. After him are Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Haile Selassie, Alexander Alekhine, Pearl S. Buck, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Among people deceased in 1975, Ivo Andrić ranks 5. Before him are Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Chiang Kai-shek. After him are Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Haile Selassie, Josephine Baker, and Arnold J. Toynbee.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivo Andrić ranks 2 out of 375. Before him are Gavrilo Princip (1894). After him are Ratko Mladić (1942), Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (1505), Alija Izetbegović (1925), Ante Pavelić (1889), Goran Bregović (1950), Emir Kusturica (1954), Valerius Severus (300), Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500), and Slobodan Praljak (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among writers born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivo Andrić ranks 1. After him are Meša Selimović (1910), Branko Ćopić (1915), Petar Kočić (1877), Aleksa Šantić (1868), Jovan Dučić (1871), Mak Dizdar (1917), Predrag Matvejević (1932), Isak Samokovlija (1889), Abdulah Sidran (1944), Filip Višnjić (1767), and Safvet-beg Bašagić (1870).

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