Ivo Andric's birth house, Travnik

Ivan Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt with life in his native Bosnia during the Ottoman rule.

He was born as Ivan, but became known by the diminutive Ivo. When Andrić was two years old, his father died. Because his mother Katarina was too poor to support him, he was raised by his mother's family in the town of Višegrad on the river Drina in eastern Bosnia, where he saw the 16th-century Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, later made famous in his novel „The Bridge on the Drina.“

A house in Travnik, which resembles his original house in Dolac, has been transformed into a museum, and his Belgrade flat on Andrić's Wreath hosts theMuseum of Ivo Andrić, and Ivo Andrić Foundation.

Visitors can see the birth room with furnitures, a library with works in various languages, a room dedicated to the novel "Travnička hronika". He donated all of the prize money for the improvement of libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina.