 Andrić also read the works of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, the Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, the Russian writer Nikolay Chernyshevsky, the Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen, the American writers Walt Whitman and Henry James, and the Czechoslovak philosopher Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.Andrić was especially fond of Polish literature, and later stated that it had greatly influenced him.He held several Serb writers in high esteem, particularly Karadžić, Njegoš, Kočić and Aleksa Šantić.