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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 794,426 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Ivo Andrić is the 149th most popular writer (up from 166th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 5th 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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  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivo Andrić ranks 149 out of 5,755. Before him are Aldous Huxley, Guillaume Apollinaire, Emily Brontë, Murasaki Shikibu, Pindar, and Elias Canetti. After him are Eugène Ionesco, Heinrich Böll, Joseph Conrad, André Breton, Dr. Seuss, and William Faulkner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Ivo Andrić ranks 8. Before him are Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, Haile Selassie, Walter Benjamin, Louis de Broglie, and Manfred von Richthofen. After him are Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Martin Niemöller, Oliver Hardy, and Alexander Alekhine. Among people deceased in 1975, Ivo Andrić ranks 7. Before him are Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Chiang Kai-shek, Haile Selassie, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. After him are Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Umm Kulthum, Arnold J. Toynbee, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivo Andrić ranks 4 out of 320. Before him are Gavrilo Princip (1894), Ratko Mladić (1942), and Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (1505). After him are Alija Izetbegović (1925), Ante Pavelić (1889), Emir Kusturica (1954), Valerius Severus (300), Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), Goran Bregović (1950), Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500), and Prince Marko (1335).

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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), Mak Dizdar (1917), Jovan Dučić (1871), Predrag Matvejević (1932), Isak Samokovlija (1889), Abdulah Sidran (1944), Umihana Čuvidina (1794), and Semir Osmanagić (1960).

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