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Ivo Anrid Nobel prize winner

General information and significance

Ivan "Ivo" Anridwas aYugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of theNobel Prizein Literature.His writings dealt mainly with life in his nativeBosnia under theOttoman Empire.His

native house inTravnik has been transformed into a Museum, and hisBelgrade flat onAnridev

Venac hosts theMuseum of Ivo Anrid,andIvo Anrid Founation.

Life

Ivo Anrid was born on 9 October 1892, toBosnian Croat parents inTravnik,Bosnia and Herzegovina,

then part ofAustria-Hungary.When Anrid was two years ol, his father Antun ie. Because his

mother Katarina was too poor to support him, he was raised by his mother's family in the town

ofViegraon the riverDrina in easternBosnia,where he saw the 16th-centuryMehme PaaSokolovid Brige,later made famous in his novelThe Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini duprija).

Anrid attene the Jesuit gymnasium inTravnik,followed bySarajevo'sgymnasium and later he

studied philosophy at the Universities ofZagreb (1912 and 1918),Vienna (1913),Krakw (1914),

andGraz (1924). Because of his political activities, Anrid was imprisone by the Austrian

government duringWorld War I (first inMaribor and later in theDoboj detention camp) alongside

other pro-Yugoslav civilians.

Andric started his literary career as a poet. In 1914 he was one of the contributors to Hrvatska mlada

lirika.

Under the newly-formedKingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (laterKingdom of Yugoslavia)

Anrid became a civil servant, first in the Ministry of Faiths an then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

where he pursued a successful diplomatic career as Deputy Foreign Minister.

During his diplomatic service, he worked in embassy atHoly See (1920), consulates

inBucharest,Trieste and Graz (1924), consulates in Paris andMarseilles(1927), and embassy

inMadrid (1928). In 1939 he was appointed ambassador in Germany. He was also a delegate of the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the 19th, 21st, 23rd and 24th sessions of theLeague of Nations in Geneva

in period 19301934. Anrid greatly oppose the movement ofStjepan Raid,the president of

theCroatian Peasant Party.His ambassadorship ended in 1941 after the German invasion of

Yugoslavia. DuringWorld War II,Anrid live quietly inBelgrade,completing three of his most

famous novels which were published in 1945, including The Bridge on the Drina.

After the war, Anrid spent most of his time in his home inBelgrade and held a number of

ceremonial posts in the new Communist government of Yugoslavia, and was also a member of the

Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for

the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the

history of his country". He donated all of the prize money for the improvement of libraries in Bosnia

and Herzegovina. He was member of theSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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Following the eath of his secon wife, Milica Babid-Anrid, in 1968, he began reucing his public

activities. In 1969 he was elected an honorary member of theAcademy of Sciences and Arts of

Bosnia and Herzegovina and in 1972 theUniversity of Belgrade awarded him an honorary

doctorate. As time went by, he grew increasingly ill and eventually died on 13 March 1975,

inBelgrade.

Most important works

The material for his works was mainly drawn from thehistory,folklore,andculture of his

nativeBosnia.

- The Bridge on the Drina

- Bosnian Chronicle (a.k.a. Chronicles of Travnik)

- The Woman from Sarajevo

Those were all released in 1945 and written duringWorld War II while Anrid was living quietly inBelgrade. They are often referred to as the"Bosnian trilogy" as they were released simultaneously

and had been written in the same period. However, they are connected only thematicallythey are

indeed three completely different works.

Some of his other popular works include:

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Ex Ponto (1918)

- Unrest (Nemiri, 1920)

- The Journey of Alija erzelez(Put Alije erzeleza, 1920)

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The Vizier's Elephant (Pria o vezirovom slonu, 1948; trans. 1962)

- The Damned Yard (Prokleta avlija, 1954)

- Omer-Pasha Latas (Omerpaa Latas, release posthumously in 1977)

His manuscripts and literary legacy are in the custody of the foundation he founded (Fondacija Ive

Anrida)andSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.Some of his manuscripts and literary legacy are

in custody of theCroatian Academy of Sciences and Arts,the Institute for the History of Croatian

Literature, Theater and Music in Zagreb.

Some claim that the works of Anrid, particularly his thesisThe Development of Spiritual Life in

Bosnia under the Influence of Turkish Rule have resurfaced as a source ofanti-Muslim prejudice in

Serbian cultural discourse.

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