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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Ivo Andri, Miroslav Krle a, Goran Tribuson, Ivana Brli -Ma urani, Mile Budak, Ivan Supek, Slobodan Novak, Dubravka Ugre i, Miljenko Jergovi, Slavenka Drakuli, Ivan Aralica, Miro Gavran, Eugen Kumi i, Ranko Marinkovi, Igor tiks, Mara vel-Garmi ek, August enoa, Janko Poli Kamov, Julijana Matanovi, eljko Ivankovi, Tomislav Ladan, Zoran Feri, Mirko Kova, Pavao Pavli i, Boris De ulovi, Petar Peki, Vladan Desnica, Ante Tomi, Ante Kova i, Dra en Pr i, Ivo Bre an, Ivan Slamnig, Jurica Pavi i, Antun oljan, Janko Leskovar, Rikard Jorgovani, Petar Zorani, Viktor Car Emin, Mate Balota. Excerpt: Ivan "Ivo" Andri (Serbian Cyrillic: ) (October 9, 1892 - March 13, 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. His native house in Travnik has been transformed into a Museum, and his Belgrade flat on Andri ev Venac hosts the Museum of Ivo Andri . Ivan Andri was born on October 9, 1892, to a Roman Catholic family of Croatian parentage, in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of the Ottoman Empire, under control of Austria-Hungary. He was born as Ivan, but became known by the diminutive Ivo. When Andri was two years old, his father Antun died. Because his mother Katarina (nee Peji ) was too poor to support him, he was raised by his mother's family in the town of Vi egrad on the river Drina in eastern Bosnia, where he saw the 16th-century Mehmed Pa a Sokolovi Bridge, later made famous in his novel The Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini uprija). Andri attended the Jesuit gymnasium in Travnik, followed by Sarajevo's gymnasium and later he studied philosophy at the Universities of Zagreb (1912 and 1918), Vienna (1913), Krakow (1914), and Graz (PhD, 1924). Beca...
