In terms of what language or dialect he wrote in, he wrote in Serbo-Croatian, which was officially considered one language in Yugoslavia; he had been a believer in Yugoslav unity and Pan-slavism.
Lotika Zellermeier (Cyrillic: Лотика Цилермајер, Serbian Latin: Lotika Cilermajer) (1860, Kraków, Poland – 1938, Višegrad, Yugoslavia) was the inspiration for the main character from the 1961 Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić’s novel The Bridge on the Drina.
Ivo Karlović | Ivo Andrić | Ivo Watts-Russell | Ivo Banac | Ivo Puhonny | Ivo Perišin | Ivo Josipović | Ivo Bligh | Ivo Vinco | Ivo Vojnović | Ivo Perović | Ivo of Kermartin | Ivo Niehe | Ivo Linna | Ivo Heuberger | Ivo Babuška | Andric | Tommy Ivo | Sandro Ivo Bartoli | Ivo Urbančič | Ivo Stourton | Ivo Siromahov | Ivo Sanader | Ivo Pilar | Ivo Pauwels (author) | Ivo Pauwels | Ivo Opstelten | Ivo Neame | Ivo Malec | Ivo Lapenna |
Urem is frequent a contributor to the US literary journals Grand Street (New York), Partisan Review (Boston), World Literature Today (Norman, Oklahoma) and Corner (Oakland, California), in which he has also published various works by the Croatian writers Janko Polić Kamov, Miroslav Krleža, Ivo Andrić and Ivan Goran Kovačić.
Residing in European capitals between World Wars, he was in a position to study the greatest works of art and to meet famous persons like Jovan Dučić, Ivo Andrić, Rastko Petrović, Milutin Milanković, Veljko Petrović, Isidora Sekulić, as well as the artists whose works will constitute a part of his collection: Milan Konjović, Kosta Hakman, Milo Milunović, Sreten Stojanović, Jefto Perić and Marino Tartalja.
She has received numerous awards and prizes for her work, including the Isidora Sekulić, Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimović, Đorđe Jovanović, Borisav Stanković and Pera Todorović prizes.
The most important are Ivo Andrić (writer, Nobel Prize for literature in 1961), Miroslav Ćiro Blažević (soccer coach of Croatian national team, won third place 1998 in France), Josip Pejaković (actor), Seid Memić Vajta (pop-singer) and Davor Džalto (artist and art historian, the youngest PhD in Germany and in the South-East European region).