Ivo Andrić - A writer's life by Radovan Popović / English edition of Ivo Andrić - Život / Zadužbina Ive Andrića Belgrade 1989 / Jugoslovenska revija / Paperback

Paperback 1989

ISBN-10: 8674130365

• ISBN-10 : 8674130380
• ISBN-13 : 978-8674130384 / 9788674130384

PAGES: 121

PUBLISHER: Zadužbina Ive Andrića / JUGOSLOVENSKA REVIJA

LANGUAGE: English

Book translated by Karin Radovanović.

English Description:

Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић, pronounced [ǐːʋo ǎːndritɕ]; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a high ranking diplomat of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a Serb and 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 the Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being released following a general amnesty for such cases in July 1917. After the war, he studied South Slavic history and literature at universities in Zagreb and Graz, eventually attaining his Ph.D. in Graz in 1924. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1920 to 1923 and again from 1924 to 1941. In 1939, he became Yugoslavia's ambassador to Germany, but his tenure ended in April 1941 with the German-led invasion of his country. Shortly after the invasion, Andrić returned to German-occupied Belgrade. He lived quietly in a friend's apartment for the duration of World War II, in conditions likened by some biographers to house arrest, and wrote some of his most important works, including Na Drini ćuprija (The Bridge on the Drina).

Serbian Description:

Ivo Andrić (Dolac kraj Travnika, 9. oktobra 1892. – Beograd, 13. marta 1975.) bio je jugoslavenski književnik i dobitnik Nobelove nagrade za književnost 1961. godine, "za epsku snagu sa kojom je nalazio teme i oslikavao ljudske sudbine izvučene iz historije njegove zemlje".

Ivo Andrić je rođen 9. oktobra 1892. godine u Travniku, mahala Zenjak broj 9, Bosna i Hercegovina u obitelji Antuna Andrića, sudskoga podvornika i Katarine Pejić. Djetinjstvo je proveo u Višegradu gdje je završio osnovnu školu. Andrić 1903. godine upisuje Veliku gimnaziju, najstariju bosansko-hercegovačku srednju školu u Sarajevu, a filozofiju - odsjek za slovenske književnosti i istoriju u Zagrebu, Beču, Krakovu i Gracu. Doktorsku disertaciju "Razvoj duhovnog života u Bosni pod uticajem turske vladavine" (Die Entwicklung des geistigen Lebens in Bosnien unter der Einwirgung der turkischen Herrschaft) Ivo Andrić je odbranio je na Univerzitetu u Gracu 1924. godine. Njegova rodna kuća je danas otvorena kao muzej - Memorijalni muzej-kuća Ive Andrića.

Kao gimnazijalac, Andrić je vatreni pobornik integralnog jugoslavenstva, pripadnik je naprednog nacionalističkog pokreta Mlada Bosna i strastveni je borac za oslobođenje južnoslovenskih naroda Austrougarske monarhije. Umro je 13. marta 1975. godine u Beogradu.

About the Author

RADOVAN POPOVIC (1938), journalist, has published numerous biographies: Isidora’s Rosary / the life of Isidora Sekulić / (Vuk Karadžić and Rad, 1979), The Living Milog Crnjanski (Prosveta, 1980), The Biography of Ivo Andrić (Andrić Foundation, 1980), The Truth about Dučić (Knjizevne novine, 1982), A Book about Cvijanović (Zugoslav Association of Publishers and Booksellers 1985)...

Radovan Popović je pisac i dugogodišnji novinar i urednik kulture dnevnih novina “Politika”. Gimnaziju je učio u Užicu, a studirao književnost u Beogradu. Jedan je od najplodnijih letopisaca sa oko trideset životopisa najvažnijih srpskih i jugoslovenskih pisaca. Popović piše biografije koje se odlikuju verodostojnošću, preglednošću i zanimljivošću. Njegove knjige su nastale kao rezultat višegodišnjeg rada i istraživanja u bibliotekama i arhivama i predstavlja dragocene izvore i za buduća izučavanja.