Explanation of latest changes I found in the The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric Univeristy of Chicago Press 1977 Translator s foreword by Lovett F Edwards page 7 Dr Ivo Andric is himself a Serb and a Bosnian Introduction by William H McNeil page 3 They went to live with her parents in Visegrad on the banks of the Drina where young Ivo grew up in an artisan family his grandfather was a carpenter playing on the bridge he was later to make so famous The family was Orthodox Christian i e Serb and in the The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961 Presentation Speech by Anders sterling Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy As a young Serbian student he joined the national revolutionary movement suffered persecution and was imprisoned in 1914 when the war broke out which shall have place in his biography for knowing that the book translator Edwards and the world renown historian McNeil were close Ivo s friends Both biographical notes were written in the first edition of this Ivo s book in 1959 and the biographical data are coming from the very Ivo Anders sterling s Presentation Speech during the official ceremony 1961 in Sweden and in the Andric s presence gives the undeniable credibility to biographical data heard in this speech As to the Clasification paragraph it has nothing to do with biography just a slander and disrespect of this great writer My proposal delete it completely From the above discussion is visible that Andric rejected idea to be seen as of Croatian lineage When Krleza attempted to allign Ivo with Croats Ivo responded this way Enes Cengic Krleza post mortem I III Svjetlost Sarajevo 1990 2 part pages 171 172 Medjutim s tekstom o Andricu za staru Enciklopediju stvari su tekle ovako Tekst je napisao Milan Bogdanovic i poslao ga meni na imprimatur kao biva da li ga primam ili ne Kao ni mnoge druge tekstove vjerovali vi sad meni ili ne ja tekst o Andricu nisam citao Mislio sam Neka pise sto hoce tako cemo to i objaviti Ionako je bilo iznad moje moci da tu ista diram i ispravljam Mjesec ili ne znam koliko nakon sto mi je poslao tekst primim od Milana pismo u kojem mi kaze da je kopiju teksta dao Ivi Andricu na uvid te da on moli da budem ljubazan i da u tekstu nesto izmijenim a to je Ivo Andric rodjen u Travniku 10 10 1892 godine hrvatskog porijekla zavrsio skole it d Moli me da brisem da je hrvatskog porijekla Na to odgovaram Bogdanovicu oprostite sto citiram Dragi moj Milane Pozdravi Ivu Andrica u moje ime veoma srdacno i poruci mu ako mozes da mu ja jebem hrvatsku majku brisat cu da je hrvatskog porijekla Shortly Milan Bogdanovic wrote a text of Andric s biography presented a copy of this text to Andric Andric asked Bogdanovic to remove the note saying that he Ivo was a man of Croatian lineage 71 252 83 33