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He continued to write until 1974, when his health took another turn for the worse. In December 1974, he was admitted to a Belgrade hospital. He soon fell into a coma, and died in the Military Medical Academy on 13 March 1975, aged 82.

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Upon receiving the Noble Prize, the number of awards and honours bestowed upon him multiplied. He received the Order of the Republic in 1962, as well as the 27 July Award of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the AVNOJ Award in 1967, and the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1972.

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The Nobel Prize ensured Andrić received global recognition. The following March, he fell ill while on a trip to Cairo and had to return to Belgrade for an operation. Judging by letters he had written at the time, Andrić felt burdened by the attention but did his best not to show it publicly.

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By the late 1950s, Andrić's works had been translated into a number of languages. On 26 October 1961., he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy..

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His two best known novels, Na Drini ćuprija and T ravnička hronika, subtly contrast Ottoman Bosnia's "oriental" propensities to the "Western atmosphere" first introduced by the French and later the Austro-Hungarians. His works contain many so-called Turkisms (Serbo-Croatian: Turcizmi), words of Turkish, Arabic or Persian origin

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Much of Andrić's work was inspired by the traditions and peculiarities of life in Bosnia, and examines the complexity and cultural contrasts of the region's Muslim, Serb and Croat inhabitants.

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Ivo Andrić  (born 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslavich novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.