In this episode, the first of a two part installment in collaboration with my dear Serbian friend, Ivan Praštalo, we get together to talk about The Bridge on The Drina, the best known novel by Yugoslav author Ivo Andrić, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1961.

You can read Ivo Andrić’s Nobel banquet speech here.

You can read Andrić’s short story «Death in Sinan’s Monastery» (specially recommended by Ivan) here.

The image used as cover for this post is a cover design for The Bridge on The Drina by the Slovenian architect Uroš Vagaja.