Ivo Andrić

Novelist, poet, short story writer and diplomat 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, he went on to study South Slavic history and literature at universities in Zagreb and Graz, eventually attaining his Ph.D. in Graz in 1924.

He served in numerous consular roles as well as ambassador roles for the Yugoslav government and was regarded as one the greatest authors from the region. He donated the prize money from his Nobel Prize to establishing new libraries and buying books in Bosnia & Herzegovina.