Portrait of a Serbian winner of Nobel Prize, writer Ivo Andrić, has ended up on the wall of the capital city of Cuba. This interesting mural found its place next to the American writer Ernest Hemingway.
Andrić and Hemingway side by side. This scene can be seen live on a state wall in Havana, the capital city of Cuba. An architect from Belgrade, Andrej Josifovski, is deserved for this interesting sight which attracts mysterious looks of the passers-by.
This young artist became known after its numerous murals which can be seen in Belgrade, but also in the USA. Thanks to his art and creativity, Cubans and tourists who end up on the streets of Havana, will have the opportunity to meet with the most influential Serbian writer of the 19th century.
Ivo Andrić was born in Bosnia that was his great love and endless inspiration his whole life. He originated from a Croatian family, but declared himself a Serb. He spent most of his life in Belgrade and wrote his works in Cyrillic script. He wrote that “sometimes there comes a time when mind goes quiet, fools speak loud and the scum enriches”.
Beneath the mural, Josifovski wrote a title of one of the most famous pieces of Ivo Andrić “Na Drini ćuprija” in Cyrillic.
Andrej’s wish to immortalize the two famous writers was recognized by the Cubans who have helped him by giving him a state wall for that purpose.
“I have barely found the brush, color and spray for the mural. In Cuba, people everywhere glorify their Nobel Prize winner Hemingway, and we also have someone to be proud of”, said Josifovski for Blic.
“For the epic strength” with which he “shaped the motifs and fates from the history of his country”, Ivo Andrić received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. His heritage is still a matter of dispute among three countries created after the separation of his beloved Yugoslavia.
