Ivo Andrić (1892-1975) was a Serbo-Croatian novelist, poet and short story writer who was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature. His published works, many of which focus on life in Bosnia under Ottoman Rule, include The Bridge on the Drina, The Pasha's Concubine and Other Tales, and The Damned Yard.
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