Ivo Andrić

Serbian author. Born into a family of small-time craftsmen in Bosnia. Lost his father at a young age, he grew up under the loving care of his devout Catholic mother. Passionate about learning, he studied philosophy at universities in Zagreb, Vienna, and Krakow. During World War I, he was arrested and imprisoned by Austrian authorities for participating in the South Slavic national liberation movement. This experience led to his first collection of poems, From the Black Sea (1918), and he began his career as a lyric poet. After 1924, he turned to prose, and excelled in short stories. In 1923, he received his doctorate from the University of Graz for his research on Bosnian history, and then joined the Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving as a diplomat in Western Europe until the start of World War II. During the war, he lived in seclusion in Nazi-occupied Belgrade and devoted himself to writing full-length novels. After liberation in 1945, he rapidly published the trilogy that resulted from his efforts: A Bridge on the Drina, A Bosnian Story, and A Woman from Sarajevo, which attracted worldwide attention. He followed it with The Chancellor's Elephant (1948) and The Cursed Courtyard (1954), and in 1961 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "the epic ability with which he was able to describe the themes and destinies of his country's history."

[Kurihara Shigeru]

"The Bridges of the Drina" (translated by Kenji Matsutani, 1966, Kobunsha)

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セルビアの作家。ボスニアの零細な手工業職人の家に生まれる。幼くして父を失い、敬虔(けいけん)なカトリック教徒の母の愛に支えられて成長。向学心に燃え、ザグレブ、ウィーン、クラクフの大学で哲学を学んだ。第一次世界大戦中、南スラブ民族解放運動に参加したかどでオーストリア官憲に逮捕され、入獄。この体験から処女詩集『黒海より』（1918）が生まれ、叙情詩人として出発した。1924年以降散文に転じ、短編を得意とした。1923年グラーツ大学よりボスニア史の研究で博士号を受け、その後ユーゴスラビア外務省に入り、第二次世界大戦開始まで西欧諸国で外交官生活を送った。大戦中、ナチ占領下のベオグラードで自宅蟄居(ちっきょ)し、長編小説の執筆に専心した。解放後の1945年、その成果である三部作『ドリナの橋』『ボスニア物語』『サラエボの女』を矢つぎばやに発表し、世界の注目を集めた。続いて『宰相の象』（1948）、『呪(のろ)われた中庭』（1954）を発表し、1961年「自国の歴史の主題と運命を叙述し得た叙事詩的力量」が評価されて、ノーベル文学賞を受賞した。

［栗原成郎］

『松谷健二訳『ドリナの橋』（1966・恒文社）』

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