Im Brand der Welten - Ivo Andrić. Ein europäisches Leben

Rarely has there been a more remarkable life of a poet: the great biography of the Yugoslav Nobel Prize-winning author and colorful diplomat. "For the epic power with which he shapes motives and destinies from the history of his country," Ivo Andric was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. Michael Martens masterfully traces an extraordinary life path in his biography: from childhood in Bosnia through the assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 to Andric's time as a diplomat of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Hitler's Berlin. These tumultuous times are followed by years in German-occupied Belgrade, where Andric, in complete seclusion, writes the great novels that will bring him worldwide fame.