Ivo Andric (1892-1975), Nobel Prize laureate for literature in 1961, is undoubtedly the most popular of all contemporary Yugoslav writers. Over the span of fifty-two years some 267 of his works have been published in thirty-three languages. Andric s doctoral dissertation, "The Development of Spiritual Life in Bosnia under the Influence of Turkish Rule" (1924), never before translated into English, sheds important light on the author s literary writings and must be taken into account in any current critical analysis of his work.
Over his long and distinguished career as a diplomat and man...