Editing Ivo Andrić (section)

==World War I==
[[File:Ovcarevo monastery.jpg|thumb|right|Ovčarevo monastery, [[Travnik]]]]

On 28 June 1914, Andrić learned of the [[Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria|assassination]] of Archduke [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria|Franz Ferdinand]] in Sarajevo.{{sfn|Hawkesworth|1984|p=15}} The assassin was [[Gavrilo Princip]], a Young Bosnian and close friend of Andrić who had been one of the first to join the SHNO in 1911.{{sfn|Dedijer|1966|p=216}}{{efn|On one occasion, Princip asked Andrić to examine a poem he had written. Later, when Andrić inquired about the poem, Princip told him that he had destroyed it.{{sfn|Dedijer|1966|p=194}}}} Upon hearing the news, Andrić decided to leave Kraków and return to Bosnia. He travelled by train to Zagreb, and in mid-July, departed for the coastal city of [[Split, Croatia|Split]] with his friend, the poet and fellow South Slav nationalist [[:hr:Vladimir Čerina|Vladimir Čerina]].{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=29}} Andrić and Čerina spent the rest of July at the latter's summer home. As the month progressed, the two became increasingly uneasy about the [[July Crisis|escalating political crisis]] that followed the Archduke's assassination and eventually led to the outbreak of World War I. They then went to [[Rijeka]], where Čerina left Andrić without explanation, only saying he urgently needed to go to Italy. Several days later, Andrić learned that Čerina was being sought by the police.{{sfn|Hawkesworth|1984|p=15}}

By the time war was declared, Andrić had returned to Split feeling exhausted and ill. Given that most of his friends had already been arrested for nationalist activities, he was certain the same fate would befall him.{{sfn|Hawkesworth|1984|p=15}} Despite not being involved in the assassination plot,{{sfn|Dedijer|1966|p=233}} in late July or early August,{{efn|Disagreement exists as to the exact date. Hawkesworth writes that Andrić was arrested on 29 July,{{sfn|Hawkesworth|1984|p=15}} while Vucinich gives the date as 4 August.{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=29}}}} Andrić was arrested for "anti-state activities", and imprisoned in Split.{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=29}} He was subsequently transferred to a prison in [[Šibenik]], then to Rijeka and finally to [[Maribor]], where he arrived on 19 August.{{sfn|Hawkesworth|1984|p=16}} Plagued by tuberculosis, Andrić passed the time reading, talking to his cellmates and learning languages.{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=29}}

By the following year, the case against Andrić was dropped due to lack of evidence, and he was released from prison on 20 March 1915.{{sfn|Hawkesworth|1984|p=16}} The authorities exiled him to the village of [[Ovčarevo]], near Travnik. He arrived there on 22 March and was placed under the supervision of local [[Franciscan]] friars. Andrić soon befriended the [[friar]] Alojzije Perčinlić and began researching the history of Bosnia's Catholic and Orthodox Christian communities under Ottoman rule.{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=29}} Andrić lived in the parish headquarters, and the Franciscans gave him access to the monastery chronicles. In return, he assisted the parish priest and taught religious songs to pupils at the monastery school. Andrić's mother soon came to visit him and offered to serve as the parish priest's housekeeper.{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=30}} "Mother is very happy," Andrić wrote. "It has been three whole years since she saw me. And she can't grasp all that has happened to me in that time, nor the whole of my crazy, cursed existence. She cries, kisses me and laughs in turn. Like a mother."{{sfn|Hawkesworth|1984|p=16}}

Andrić was later transferred to a prison in [[Zenica]], where Perčinlić regularly visited him. The [[Austro-Hungarian Army]] declared Andrić a political threat in March 1917 and exempted him from armed service. He was thus registered with a non-combat unit until February of the following year. On 2 July 1917, Emperor [[Charles I of Austria|Charles]] declared a general amnesty for all of Austria-Hungary's political prisoners.{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=30}} His freedom of movement restored, Andrić visited Višegrad and reunited with several of his school friends. He remained in Višegrad until late July, when he was mobilized. Because of his poor health, Andrić was admitted to a Sarajevo hospital and thus avoided service. He was then transferred to the ''Reservospital'' in Zenica, where he received treatment for several months before continuing to Zagreb.{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=30}} There, Andrić again fell seriously ill and sought treatment at the Sisters of Mercy hospital, which had become a gathering place for dissidents and former political prisoners.{{sfn|Hawkesworth|1984|p=17}}

In January 1918, Andrić joined several South Slav nationalists in editing a short-lived pan-Yugoslav periodical called ''Književni jug'' (Literary South).{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=30}} Here and in other periodicals, Andrić published book reviews, plays, verse, and translations. Over the course of several months in early 1918, Andrić's health began to deteriorate, and his friends believed he was nearing death.{{sfn|Hawkesworth|1984|p=17}} However, he recovered and spent the spring of 1918 in [[Krapina]] writing ''Ex ponto'', a book of prose poetry that was published in July.{{sfn|Vucinich|1995|p=30}} It was his first book.{{sfn|Hawkesworth|1984|p=18}}