“A man's life is a state of gradual absorption of the poisons which lie in wait for him in his food and drink and even in the air he breathes.”

— Ivo Andric

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About Ivo Andric

Author • Yugoslav

Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writing mainly deals with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire, exploring the complex...

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