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1975 was the year of Ivo Andrić's passing. Andrić, a Yugoslav novelist and Nobel laureate, was born in 1892 in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is best known for his novel "The Bridge on the Drina", which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. Andrić's works often explore Themes of history, identity, and the human condition in the Balkans.