Ivo Andric; (hr/sr-lat:Ivo Andrić; sr-cyr:Иво Андрић) (October 9, 1892 in Dolac near Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina) – March 13, 1975 in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia), a Serbian-Croatian novelist, short story writer, and Nobel Prize winner from former Yugoslavia. Ivo Andric jpg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Mayor Besim Halilović Area  - Total 35 km² (21. ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Belgrade (Serbian, Београд, Beograd  listen), is the capital (2003–) of Serbia and Montenegro and Yugoslavia (1918–2003). ... The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state that existed from 1945 to 1992. ... The Serbian language or Serb language is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ...

Ivan Andrić (Ivo is diminutive of Ivan) was born on October 9th, 1892 near Travnik, Bosnia (then part of Austria-Hungary) to a Catholic family of Bosnian Croats. He started his education in Sarajevo's Gymnasium and continued studies at the universities in Krakow, Vienna, and Graz. Because of his political activities, Andrić was interned by the Austrian government during World War I in the Doboj Austrian detention camp alongside with civilian Serbs and pro-Serb south Slavs. October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). ... Mayor Besim Halilović Area  - Total 35 km² (21. ... Bosnia and Herzegovina (officially Bosna i Hercegovina, shortened to BiH, also in English variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a south Slavic people mostly living in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (where theyre one of the constitutive nations). ... View of Sarajevo from the east. ... A gymnasium is a type of school of secondary education in parts of Europe. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec, pronounced grah-dets), with a population of 305,000 (council census 2000) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German). ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Doboj (in Serbian Cyrillic: Добој) is a town in northern Bosnia, situated on the river Bosna. ...

Under the newly formed Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), Andrić held a number of diplomatic posts, including that of ambassador to Germany. His ambassadorship ended in 1941, and during World War II Andrić lived in Belgrade. The post-war decade was his most productive period. Following the death of his wife in 1968, he slowly reduced his activities. As the time went by, he became increasingly ill and eventually died on March 13th, 1975. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state which existed from December 1, 1918 to mid-April 1941. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. ... Belgrade (Serbian, Београд, Beograd  listen), is the capital (2003–) of Serbia and Montenegro and Yugoslavia (1918–2003). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ...

The material for his works was mainly drawn from the history, folklore and culture of his native Bosnia. Andrić wrote in Croatian and, dominantly, in Serbian, while officially supported the notion of one Serbo-Croatian language, just like many of his contemporaries, both Croat and Serb. Many of his works being translated into English, the best known are the following: For the Nelly Furtado album, see Folklore (album). ... The Serbian language or Serb language is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian. ... Serbo-Croatian (srpskohrvatski or hrvatskosrpski) is a name for a language of the Western group of the South Slavic languages. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

• The Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini ćuprija, 1945; trans. 1959)
• The Woman from Sarajevo (Gospođica, 1945; trans. 1965)
• The Vizier's Elephant (Priča o vezirovom slonu, 1948; trans. 1962)

The first earned him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1961. The bridge on the Drina (around 1890) The Bridge on the Drina (orig. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Some of his other popular works include:

• The Journey of Alija Đerzelez (Put Alije Đerzeleza, 1920)
• Bosnian Chronicle (Travnička hronika, 1945)
• The Damned Yard (Prokleta avlija, 1954)
• Omer-Pasha Latas (Omerpaša Latas, released posthumously in 1977)

Andrić belongs to those writers that are hard to classify: he was both Serbian and Croatian writer, wrote in Serbian (predominantly) and Croatian (earlier works of poetry and novellas, ca. 30 % of his opus); a believer of Yugoslav unity and quasi-racial Slavic nationalism before WWI and royal Yugoslavia's ambassador to Nazi Germany. His political career, combined with extraliterary factors, contributed to the controversy that still surrounds his work. However, a fair assessment of his work could not overlook the following facts and evaluations: 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... The Serbian language or Serb language is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The Nazi Party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ...

• Andrić is at his best in short stories, novellas and essayist meditative prose. Brilliant aphorisms and meditations, collected in his early poetic prose (Nemiri/"Anxieties") and, particularly, posthumously published Znakovi pored puta/"Signs near the travel-road" are great examples of a melancholy consciousness contemplating the universals in human condition-not unlike Andrić's chief influence Kierkegaard. His best short stories and novellas are located in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina and frequently center on collisions between three main Bosnia's nations: Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks. The latter are in his fiction almost exclusively referred to as "Turks". Although social and denominational tensions are the scene for the majority of stories, Andrić's shorter fictions cannot be reduced to a sort of regional chronicle: rooted frequently in rather prosaic and pedestrian Bosnian Franciscan chronicles, they are expressions of a vision of life, because for Andrić, as for other great regionalist authors like Hardy or Hawthorne, the regional irradiates the universal.

• yet, with the collapse of Yugoslavia other, until then suppressed, dubieties about Andrić's work began to pop up. The commonest charge is as follows: Bosniaks, or Bosnian Muslims are in Andrić's work portrayed stereotypically and in a hostile and condescending manner. Some circles of Bosnian Muslim intelligentsia had raised these accusations to ludicrous extremes, turning Andrić into a Greater Serbian propagandist and pamphleteer. Suffice to say- Andrić was primarily a fiction writer and such generalizations are essentially meaningless. But, they do, to a degree, invalidate Andrić's stature as a writer. Shallow stereotypes of Bosnian Muslims who are depicted as borderline psychotic oversensual "Orientals" abound even in his best fiction- which has proven to be detrimental in the re-assessment of his literary stature at the end of the 20th century.

• other, more amusing post-Yugoslav literary event is Andrić's posthumous placement: since the project of Yugoslav literature collapsed (just like Czechoslovak or Soviet "literatures"), a squabble about "who Andrić belongs to ?" only began. Serbian culture and tradition have the strongest claim: Andrić considered himself a Serb for the most of his adult life, the majority of his works were written in Serbian language and he was, as far as former Yugoslav area is concerned, influenced decisevely by such Serbian cultural icons like Vuk Karadžić and Petar Petrović Njegoš, who both figured in a few Andrić's essays. Croatian curricula at high schools and universities have put Andrić among other writers in Croatian literature departments and programs: the arguments seem to be mostly "genetic" (Andrić was of Croatian origin and in young adulthood declared himself a Croat-for instance, he participated in a book Hrvatska mlada lirika/"Croatian young poetry", 1914); also, great part of his best earlier work was written in Croatian language (as different from Serbian Ijekavian language of such writers like Petar Kočić or Aleksa Šantić) and Andrić didn't alter his early works in later editions; and, the role of "chorus" or moral conscience, ie. authorial voice in the major part of his work are Bosnian Croat Franciscans. Be as it may, Andrić's work is now in the official curricula of Croat and Serb literature programs, and, grudgingly, in that of Bosnian Muslims. Since aesthetic sensibilities have significantly altered in past decades, a traditionalist storyteller like Andrić is simultaneously politically a controversial figure and literary a somewhat marginal presence: Croats have never considered him an equal to Miroslav Krleža, while Serbs affirm aesthetic primacy of Miloš Crnjanski and Bosniaks or Bosnian Muslims of Mehmed Selimović - a Muslim writer who, like the Croat Andrić, "opted" for Serbdom during the major part of his life. Where will this literary-political pendulum finally stop, it is too early to predict.

Søren Kierkegaard Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (IPA: ˈsøːr ̩n ˈkɪʁgəgɔːʔʁ) (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855), a 19th century Danish philosopher, has achieved general recognition as the first existentialist philosopher, though some new research shows this may be a more difficult connection than previously thought. ... Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a south Slavic people mostly living in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (where theyre one of the constitutive nations). ... Bosniaks (natively: Bošnjaci) are South Slavs who converted to Islam during the Ottoman period (15th-19th century). ... Photograph of Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was a novelist and poet, generally regarded as one of the greatest figures in English literature. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. ... The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state that existed from 1945 to 1992. ... Bosniaks (natively: Bošnjaci) are South Slavs who converted to Islam during the Ottoman period (15th-19th century). ... Greater Serbia is a name for a Serbian nationalist concept. ... The Serbian language or Serb language is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian. ... Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Вук Стефановић Караџић) (November 7, 1787 - February 7, 1864) was a Serb linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language. ... Petar II Petrović Njegoš (sr-cyr: Петар II Петровић Његош) (November 1, 1813-October 10, 1851) was a Montenegrin poet, ruler of Montenegro (sr-cyr: Црна Гора; sr-lat: Crna Gora) and Serb Orthodox Bishop (sr-cyr: Владика; sr-lat: Vladika) of the Metropolitanate (Bishopric) of Montenegro. ... Renaissance Marko Marulić Marin Držić Hanibal Lucić Dinko Zlatarić Petar Zoranić Baroque Ivan Gundulić Ivan Bunić Vučić Classicism and Sentimentalism Andrija Kačić Miošić Matija Antun Reljković Romanticism Ivan Mažuranić Stanko Vraz August Šenoa Realism Ante Kovačić Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević Ivana Brlić Mažuranić Modernism Antun Gustav Matoš Janko Polić Kamov The... The Croatian language is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages which is used primarily by the Croats. ... Petar Kočić Petar Kočić (Cyrillic - Петар Кочић) (1877 — 1916) was Bosnian poet and writer. ... Miroslav Krleža. ... Miloš Crnjanski, in Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Црњански, was a Serbian author. ... Bosniaks (natively: Bošnjaci) are South Slavs who converted to Islam during the Ottoman period (15th-19th century). ... Mehmed Meša Selimović, Bosnian prose writer who lived in Bosnia was one of the greatest 20th century novelists of Southeastern Europe. ...

External link

• His official website (http://www.ivoandric.org.yu/)