Melinda Nadj Abonji
Melinda Nadj Abonji (born 22 June 1968 in Bečej, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian-Swiss writer, musician, and performance artist. She came to Switzerland at the age of 5 to join her refugee parents. After finishing her studies at the University of Zurich, she wrote a novel, Fly Away, Pigeon, based on her refugee experiences, which in 2010 won the German Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize.
Melinda Nadj Abonji
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- Born
- 1968. · Bečej.
- Nationality
- Serbia and Switzerland.
- Occupation
- musician and writer.
- Fields
- prose.
- Education
- University of Zurich.
- Honours
- German Book Prize, Swiss Book Prize and Erich Fried Prize.
- Languages
- German.
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Melinda Nadj Abonji (born 22 June 1968 in Bečej, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian-Swiss writer, musician, and performance artist. She came to Switzerland at the age of 5 to join her refugee parents. After finishing her studies at the University of Zurich, she wrote a novel, Fly Away, Pigeon, based on her refugee experiences, which in 2010 won the German Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize.
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Nadj Abonji, Melinda (2010). Tauben fliegen auf Roman (in German). Salzburg: Jung und Jung. ISBN 978-3-902497-78-9. OCLC 699608457. —— (2011). Im Schaufenster im Frühling Roman (in German). Salzburg: Jung und Jung. ISBN 978-3-902497-86-4. OCLC 712435209. —— (2017). Schildkrötensoldat Roman (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 978-3-518-42759-0. OCLC 984749412.
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Abonji, Melinda Nadj (2014). Fly Away, Pigeon. Calcutta: Seagull Books. ISBN 978-0-85742-212-5.
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Melinda Nadj Abonji born at Bečej.
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