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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961

"for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"
Ivo Andric
Ivo Andric
Yugoslavia
b. 1892
(in Travnik, Bosnia)
d. 1975
 
 
 
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