Ex Ponto je knjiga stihova u prozi koju je napisao Ivo Andrić 1918. godine. U ovom ranom Andrićevom delu, nazvanom "razgovorom s dušom" (Niko Bartulović), stilizovano je lično iskustvo u nastojanju da mu se, u lirskoj sentenci, pridoda značenje filozofsko-poetske istine, a da pritom zadrži fabulativno-narativnu osnovu, na osnovu koje bi se mogla rekonstruisati stanja jednog zatočenika. Ova knjiga pesama u prozi razvrstana je u tri ciklusa: prvi ima 26, drugi 25, a treći 88 tekstova, uz završni "Epilog". U strasnom lirskom monologu, pesnik se obračunava sa sobom, pokušava da u tamničkim bdenjima razreši unutrašnju dramu i oslobodi se traume izazvane utamničenjem. Nepravedan pad iza rešetaka u drugi, surov i mučan svet, gde je žrtva „na suvom ukletom sprudu“, dovodi pesnika u stanje da postavlja važna egzistencijlna pitanja i grozničavo razmišlja o svetu i mestu pojedinca u njegovim tragičnim okvirima.
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Ivan "Ivo" Andrić (Cyrillic: Иво Андрић) was a Yugoslav and Bosnian novelist, short story writer and Nobel prizewinner. His writings deal mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. His house in Travnik is now a Museum. His Belgrade flat on Andrićev Venac hosts the Museum of Ivo Andrić and the Ivo Andrić Foundation. After the Second World War, he spent most of his time in his Belgrade home, held ceremonial posts in the Communist government of Yugoslavia and was a Bosnia and Herzegovina parliamentarian. He was also a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country". He donated the prize money to libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His works include The Bridge on the Drina, Bosnian Chronicle (aka Chronicles of Travnik), and The Woman from Sarajevo. These were written during WW2 while he was living quietly in Belgrade and published in 1945. They are often referred to as the "Bosnian Trilogy" as they were published simultaneously and had been written in the same period. However, they're connected only thematically. Other works include Ex Ponto (1918), Unrest (Nemiri, '20), The Journey of Alija Đerzelez (Put Alije Đerzeleza, 1920), The Vizier's Elephant (Priča o vezirovom slonu, 1948; tr. 1962), The Damned Yard (Prokleta avlija, 1954), and Omer-Pasha Latas (Omerpaša Latas, released posthumously in 1977)
