Ivo andric biography serbian

THE BIOGRAPHY OF IVO ANDRIĆ

On October 9, , the birth of Ivan, son of Antun Andrić, custodian, and Katarina Andrić, nee Pejić, was noted under entry number 70 in the Register of Births kept in the Church of St.

John the Baptist in Travnik. The future great Serbian writer was born in Travnik by happenstance, during his mother’s visit to her relatives. Ivo Andrić’s parents were from Sarajevo: his father’s family had been established in the town for decades, engaged in the brass working trade.

In addition to working in the same trade, members of the Andrić family were linked by the same ill fate of tuberculosis: many of the writer’s ancestors, including all his father’s brothers, succumbed in their youth, and Andrić himself lost his father when he was two years old.

Faced with penury, Katarina Andrić took her only child to be raised by her husband’s sister Ana and Ana’s husband Ivan Matkovščik in Višegrad. Andrić completed elemen