Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961, announced October 26, 1961. Ivo Andrić, “for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country”. Ivo Andrić: born 1892, Dolac, Bosnia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).