Andric, Ivo(the Yugoslav Tolstoy)

1892 - Born in Dolac, Austria-Hungary on the 9th of October.

1941 - His ambassadorship ended in after the German invasion of Yugoslavia.

1945 - Andri lived quietly in Belgrade, completing the three of his most famous novels which were published, including The Bridge on the Drina.

         - Wrote the Bosnian Story.

1961 - He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country.

1968 - He began reducing his public activities.

1975 - He became increasingly ill and eventually died on the 13th of March, in Belgrade.