Ivo Andric is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Born in Croatia in 1934, he spent most of his childhood in the village of Trebevic near Zagreb, until he was expelled from school at the age of 14 for writing a poem criticizing the government. He later attended the University of Zagreb where he studied philosophy and worked as a journalist. In 1964 he moved to Paris where he became known as a political activist and journalist
He gained international recognition during the Croatian Spring in 1971 when he was imprisoned on charges of high treason. His novel, The Bridge on the Drina (1971), won him the French Prix des Deux Magots and the Prix des Deux Magots du meilleur livre étranger.
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.Ivo Andric
Sadness is also a kind of defence.Ivo Andric
