Masha Dabić

Mascha Dabić , actually Marija Dabić , (* 1981 in Sarajevo ) in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an author , translator and interpreter who writes in German and lives in Vienna .

life and work

Mascha Dabić was born in Sarajevo in 1981 and came to Austria with her family in 1992 . She studied translation studies (English and Russian) and political science . From 2010 she was a journalist at daStandard.at . She works as an interpreter in the asylum and conference sector and teaches at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. Mascha Dabić is a member of the translators interest group and has been a board member since 2015 .

Mascha Dabić translated texts by Barbi Marković , Vladan Matijević , Svetislav Basara , Srđan Valjarević, Jelena Mijović, Jelena Lengold, Marija Knežević and others. In her debut novel Friction Losses , she tells a day about the life of an interpreter who works in an association for psychotherapy for refugees . With this book she was nominated by Daniela Strigl for the Franz Tumler Literature Prize. Furthermore, Dabić was represented with frictional losses on the debut shortlist of the Austrian Book Prize .

Works

As an author

• Frictional losses . Novel. Edition Atelier , 2017.
• Basic vocabulary Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian for nursing professions: BKS-German / German-BKS . Dictionary. Facultas , 2016.

As a translator (selection)

• Dragan Velikić : Everyone has to be somewhere . Novel. Hanser , 2017.
• Barbara Marković : Superheroes . Novel. Residenz Verlag , 2016.
• Emir Kusturica : Où suis-je dans cette histoire? . Biography. dt. Death is an unconfirmed rumor. My life so far , Knaus , 2011.
• Sreten Ugričić : Neznanom junaku . Novel. German To the Unknown Heroes , Dittrich Verlag , 2011.
• Barbara Marković: Izlaženje . Novel. German going out , Suhrkamp Verlag , 2009.

Awards (selection)

• Translation bonus from the Austrian Federal Chancellery : 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
• Starting grant for literature from the Austrian Federal Chancellery: 2015.
• Franz Tumler Literature Prize - 2017 nomination for friction losses .
• Austrian Book Prize - nomination on the 2017 debut shortlist for friction losses .

Web links

• Interview “Home is always somewhere else” with Albert Rohan, Doron Rabinovici and Mascha Dabić about the concept of strangers , by Sylvia Einöder, Die Furche, April 2014 .
• Interview “I'm on my nerves” with u. a. Julya Rabinowich and Mascha Dabić on psychotherapy with traumatized refugees, by Marietta Türk, Der Standard, March 2008 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IG Translators. Literaturhaus Wien , accessed on February 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Dabić, Masha. In: traduki.eu. March 2011, accessed on February 17, 2017 (short biography at Traduki , a European network for translations). 
3. ^ Mascha Dabić: Frictional losses. Edition Atelier , accessed on February 17, 2017 (information on the publisher's website). 
4. ↑ The nominated debut novels. Franz Tumler Literature Prize 2017. Südtirol News, accessed on May 18, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Austrian Book Prize 2017: Longlist and Shortlist Debut are here! Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade, accessed on September 5, 2017 .