Yugoslav Author's Nobel Prize Exhibit Opens in Montenegro

Ivo Andric's 1961 Nobel Prize medal is part of an exhibition opening on Friday in the Montenegrin coastal town of Herceg Novi, in the house where the only Yugoslav winner of the prize lived for years.

Visitors will have to chance to see other Andric memorabilia at the house which was turned into a memorial location and opened to the public in July, with future plans to turn it into a museum.

This is the first time that Andric's Nobel Prize has been exhibited in Montenegro since he received the award at a ceremony in Stockholm in 1961.

Andric won the Nobel Prize for Literature for the novel The Bridge on the Drina, the story of the inhabitants of the Ottoman-occupied town of Visegrad and their relationship with the town's bridge - a relationship that unfolds over three centuries.

Local authorities said that the Nobel Prize, which consists of gold medals and a charter, will be exhibited for three days as a part of the exhibition entitled 'The Writer, Diplomat and Nobel Prize Winner', which opened on July 17.

Andric's diplomatic uniform,diplomatic suitcase and passport - he was a Yugoslav ambassador to Germany in the early 1940s - are also part of the exhibit.

According to the organisers, the exhibition in the house where Andric lived in the late 1950s and later in the period from 1963-68, has already been visited by thousands of Montenegrins and foreign tourists.

"With the opening of the reconstructed house of Nobel Prize-winning Ivo Andric, the process of the writer's 'return' to Herceg Novi has started, through remembrance of his work and personality," the municipality of Herceg Novi said in a press release.

Tatijana Korijcac, the director of Belgrade Museum of Art, which hosts a memorial room dedicated to...