Editing Ivo Andrić (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Ivo Andric Beograd spomenik.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Statue of Andrić adjacent to Belgrade's [[Novi dvor|New Palace]]]]
Shortly before his death, Andrić stated that he wished for all his possessions to be preserved as part of an endowment to be used for "general cultural and humanitarian purposes". In March 1976, an administrative committee decided that the purpose of the endowment would be to promote the study of Andrić's work, as well as art and literature in general. The Ivo Andrić Foundation<ref name=":0" /> has since organized a number of international conferences, made grants to foreign scholars studying the writer's works and offered financial aid to cover the publication costs of books relating to Andrić. An annual yearbook, titled ''Sveske Zadužbine Ive Andrića'' (The Journals of the Ivo Andrić Foundation), is published by the organization. Andrić's [[will and testament]] stipulated that an award be given annually to the author of each subsequent year's best collection of short stories,{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=36}} which led to the [[Andrić Prize]]'s founding in 1975.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Andrić Prize |url=https://www.ivoandric.org.rs/english/andric-prize |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=Задужбина Иве Андрића}}</ref> The street that runs beside Belgrade's [[Novi dvor|New Palace]], now the seat of the [[President of Serbia]], was posthumously named ''Andrićev venac'' (Andrić's Crescent) in his honour. It includes a life-sized statue of the writer. The flat in which Andrić spent his final years has been turned into a museum.{{sfn|Norris|2008|pp=100, 237}} Opened over a year after Andrić's death, it houses books, manuscripts, documents, photographs and personal belongings.{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=36}}

[[File:Ivo Andrić and José Saramago 2022 stamp of Serbia.jpg|thumb|Ivo Andrić (left) and the [[1998 Nobel Prize in Literature]] laureate [[José Saramago]] pictured on a 2022 Serbian stamp.]]
Andrić remains the only writer from the former Yugoslavia to have been awarded the Nobel Prize.{{sfn|Moravcevich|1980|p=23}} Given his use of the Ekavian dialect, and the fact that most of his novels and short stories were written in Belgrade, his works have become associated almost exclusively with [[Serbian literature]].{{sfn|Norris|1999|p=61}} The Slavonic studies professor [[Bojan Aleksov]] characterizes Andrić as one of Serbian literature's two central pillars, the other being [[Petar II Petrović-Njegoš]].{{sfn|Aleksov|2009|p=273}} "The plasticity of his narrative," Moravcevich writes, "the depth of his psychological insight, and the universality of his symbolism remain unsurpassed in all of Serbian literature."{{sfn|Moravcevich|1980|p=23}} Due to his self-identification as a Serb, many in the Bosniak and Croat literary establishments have come to "reject or limit Andrić's association with their literatures".{{sfn|Norris|1999|p=61}} In Croatia, Andrić was not generally seen as part of Croatian literature even in former Yugoslavia, though that started to change in the Croatian literary circles around 1990.{{sfn|Primorac 6 September 2012}} Following [[Breakup of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia's disintegration]] in the early 1990s, Andrić's works were among those that the [[Croatian Democratic Union]] activists had purged from some of the city libraries and schools in Croatia.{{sfn|Perica|2002|p=188}} [[Dubravka Ugrešić]] criticized the then-President [[Franjo Tuđman]] for promoting the likes of [[Ivan Aralica]] over Ivo Andrić, [[Slobodan Šnajder]], [[Slavenka Drakulić]] and herself.{{sfn|Cornis-Pope|2010|p=569}} The Croatian historian and politician [[Ivo Banac]] characterized Andrić as a writer who "missed the Chetnik train by a very small margin".{{sfn|Banac|1992|p=xiii}} Though Andrić remains a controversial figure in Croatia, the Croatian literary establishment largely rehabilitated his works.{{sfn|Primorac 6 September 2012}}

Bosniak scholars have objected to the ostensibly negative portrayal of Muslim characters in Andrić's works.{{sfn|Snel|2004|p=210}} During the 1950s, his most vocal Bosniak detractors accused him of being a [[plagiarism|plagiarist]], [[homosexuality|homosexual]] and Serbian nationalist. Some went so far as to call for his Nobel Prize to be taken away. Most Bosniak criticism of his works appeared in the period immediately prior to the breakup of Yugoslavia and in the aftermath of the [[Bosnian War]].{{sfn|Rakić|2000|pp=82–87}} In early 1992, a Bosniak nationalist in Višegrad destroyed a statue of Andrić with a sledgehammer.{{sfn|Silber 20 September 1994}} In 2009, Nezim Halilović, the [[imam]] of Sarajevo's [[King Fahd Mosque (Sarajevo)|King Fahd Mosque]], derided Andrić as a "Chetnik ideologue" during a sermon.{{sfn|Radio Television of Serbia 9 April 2009}} In 2012, the filmmaker [[Emir Kusturica]] and Bosnian Serb [[President of Republika Srpska|President]] [[Milorad Dodik]] unveiled another statue of Andrić in Višegrad, this time as part of the construction of an ethno-town{{efn|An ethno-town or ethno-village is a tourist attraction that is designed to resemble a traditional settlement inhabited by a particular group of people. Kusturica had previously constructed [[Drvengrad]], an ethno-village in Western Serbia.{{sfn|Lagayette|2008|p=12}}}} called [[Andrićgrad]], sponsored by Kusturica and the [[Government of Republika Srpska]].{{sfn|Jukic 29 June 2012}} Andrićgrad was officially inaugurated in June 2014, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.{{sfn|Aspden 27 June 2014}}

Starting in the early 1990s, Andrić's likeness began to appear on the banknotes of the Yugoslav dinar.{{sfn|Živančević-Sekeruš|2014|p=46}} His likeness is also featured on 1[[Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark|KM]] banknotes that were issued in [[Republika Srpska]] and 200KM banknotes that were issued at the national level in Bosnia and Herzegovina,{{sfn|Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina 15 May 2002}} as well as 20 [[Serbian dinar|dinar]] coins minted by [[Serbia]] in 2011 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.{{sfn|Radio Television of Serbia 20 May 2011}}