Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Ivo Andrić
Born: October 9, 1892
Died: March 13, 1975 (aged 82)
Bio: Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
Known for:
- The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
- Bosnian Chronicle (1945)
- The Damned Yard (1954)
- The Journey of Alija Đerzelez (1920)
- Znakovi pored puta