National Library receives gift from Ivo Andric Foundation

BELGRADE - The Ivo Andric Foundation has given the Serbian National Library a collection of all the issues of Ivo Andric's works published outside of Serbia from 2012 to this day, as part of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Serbian Nobel laureate's death, the library has stated.

Library's acting director Laslo Blaskovic accepted the gift.

All these works were published abroad and serve as a testament to Andric's significance in world literature, Blaskovic pointed out thanking for the gift.

Ivo Andric received the the Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm in 1961, and has been the first and only Southern Slav writer to obtain the highest literary recognition so far.

Andric, the most translated Serbian writer in the world at the time, passed away on March 13, 1975.

All his savings, including the Nobel cash prize, went to the Ivo Andric Foundation, established after his death. The Foundadtion watches over the literary heritage of the only Serbian Nober Prize winner, and each year awards the prize named after him for the best story or storybook.

Photo Tanjug, S. Radovanovic (illustration, archive)