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| | The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andric) |
 | | Ivo Andric was born a Bosnian Serb in 1892, and grew up first in Sarajevo, where his father was a silversmith, and then, after his father died, in Visegrad, where his mother's father worked as a carpenter. |
 | | In his youth, during the Austrian annexation of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Andric attended the great Hapsburg centers of learning -- Vienna, Zagreb, Graz and Cracow -- but during WWI his nationalist political activity caused him to be arrested by the Austrians and put in an internment camp for three years. |
 | | By this time, Andric had moved away from the linguistic nationalism he championed in his youth towards pan-slavic sympathies: he seems to point to a coming cultural transformation that would transcend Bosnia's sectarian and ethnic divisions. |
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