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Nobel Prize in Literature 1961

Ivo Andrić

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Ivo Andrić received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961, making them laureate number 56 since the prize was first awarded in 1901.

They are the only writer from Bosnia & Herzegovina to have won the prize.

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