Bosnian-born writer Ivo Andrić received the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel "The Bridge on the Drina," becoming the only Nobel literature laureate born in the territory of modern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Record no. MRB-2026-006533
Ivo Andrić Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
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