Bosnian Chronicle

Informationen zum Autor Ivo Andirc was born in 1892 in Travnik! Bosnia! of Roman Catholic parents and grew up alongside Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Visegrad! the town on the river Drina in which his novel The Bridge Over Drina is set! and in Sarajevo. He studied at the Habsburg universities of Zagreb! Cracow! Vienna and Graz. A founding member of the first "Yugoslav" youth organisation in Bosnia! he was imprisoned in 1914 for his involvement in the "Young Bosnia" independence movement. He served in the Yugoslav diplomatic service until 1941 when he returned definitively to Belgrade. His first work appeared in 1914 and he published six volumes of short stories and five novels! as well as verse! essays and reflective prose. In 1961 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1975. Klappentext Set in the Napoleonic era in the town of Travnik! the book presents the power struggles within the region. Zusammenfassung Set in the Napoleonic era in the town of Travnik! the book presents the power struggles within the region.

Product details

• Authors: I Andric, Ivo Andric
• Assisted by: Celia Hawkesworth (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.1996
• EAN: 9781860461217
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-121-7
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 216 mm x 35 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature