Ivo Andric was born on 9 October 1892 in Dolac near Travnik in Austria-Hungary. Registry books say that his father was Anton Andric, school attendance, and the mother Katarina Andric (born Pejic). He spent his childhood in Visegrad, where he finished primary school. in 1903 Andric enter The Great High School in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina's oldest high school, and he study Slavic literature and history at the University of Zagreb, Vienna, Krakow and Graz. PhD thesis Development of Spiritual Life in Bosnia under the Influence of Turkish Rule Andric defended at the University of Graz, in 1924.
Andric has entered into literature with prose poems, "The Twilight" and "Mild and good moonlight," published in the Bosnian villa in 1911. Before the First World War, in June, in 1914, in Proceedings of Croatian young poetry were published six Andric's poems in prose ("Last year's song", "Stanza in the night", "Darkness", "Sank", "Poor discomfort" and "Night of the Red Stars"). The first book of prose poems - "Ex Ponto" - Andric announced in 1918 in Zagreb, a collection "Unrest" was published in Belgrade in 1920. All Andric's lyrical songs in his lifetime that were not collected in a book were published posthumously, in 1976 in Belgrade, called "What I dream and what is happening."
He won the Nobel Prize for literature as a citizen of Yugoslavia, 1961, for the novel Bridge on the Drina (1945), as well as for the entire previous work on the "history of a people."
Andric was a master of the words and style. His prose has retained absolute, crystalline clarity of expression. Everything about him expressed a calm and natural, and his narrative style is really "not blurred crystals." Andric's work has become the pride of Serbian culture, a high international recognition, embodied the Nobel prize, he now lives as a permanent property of the world literature.
Authors of the stamp: Bozidar Dosenovic and Nebojsa Djumic
Publisher: POSTE SRPSKE a.d. Banjaluka
