Meisam Mirhadi is the translator of the book originally published in 1954. Camil, a wealthy young man from Smyrna living in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, is fascinated by the story of Dzem, ...

Ivo Andric at home. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature, other contenders that year included EM Forster, John Steinbeck and JRR Tolkien (Public domain/Tanja Kragujevic) My life took an ...

Work is set to begin building a new town inspired by the writing of Yugoslavian Nobel literature laureate Ivo Andrić, following plans by film director Emir Kusturica and the Republika Srpska's ...

For the first time, the Montenegrin town of Herceg Novi will exhibit the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Yugoslav writer Ivo Andric, in the house where he once lived. Ivo Andric. Photo: ...

THE VIZIER’S ELEPHANT (247 pp.)—Ivo Andric—Harcourt, Brace & World ($4.75). DEVIL’S YARD (137 pp.)—Ivo Andric—Grove ($3.95). Few regions in the world have known so little freedom as Bosnia, now part ...

There are a few legends who have witnessed the two world wars and chronicled the happenings around the globe at that time. One of these was Serbian author and novelist Ivo Andric (nee Ivan Andric), ...

My life took an irrevocable turn in 2001, when I visited the former Yugoslavia for the first time and fell in love with the place. That visit was rapidly succeeded by others, to the incomprehension of ...