“Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.”

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...