The Bridge on the Drina (, Serbian Cyrillic: На Дрини ћуприја) sometimes restyled as The Bridge over the Drina, is a novel by Yugoslavian writer Ivo Andrić. Andrić wrote the novel while living quietly in Belgrade during World War II, publishing it in 1945. Andrić was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his entire literary work (of which this novel is best known) in 1961.