Tijan Sila
Tijan Sila (born 1981 in Sarajevo ) is a German writer .
Life
Sila, born in 1981 in Sarajevo, then still in Yugoslavia , fled with his family during the siege of Sarajevo and came to Germany in 1994 as an emigrant. He grew up in Landau in the Palatinate (where he was also the guitarist in a punk band). After studying German and English in Heidelberg , Sila lives today (2018) with his wife in Kaiserslautern and works there as a German teacher at a vocational school. The name Sila (Bosnian for 'force') is his author's pseudonym.
In 2017, Kiepenheuer & Witsch published the first part of a cycle of five novels, Sila's debut novel Tierchen unlimited , followed in 2018 by the novel Die Fahne der Wünsche . Sila tells of survival under very difficult conditions (without the works being primarily autobiographical), with reports of violence and horror often being accompanied by passages of black humor . Some of his shorter texts have appeared in ZEIT , among others .
Awards
- 2018: Märkisches scholarship for literature for little animals unlimited
- 2019: Literature grant from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
Works
- The flag of desires. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-05134-6
- Animals unlimited. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-462-05026-4
- Together forever. SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95566-063-5
Web links
- Tijan Sila on perlentaucher.de
- Texts by Sila in the ZEIT
- Doris Akrap : " The Palatinate is cooler " (via Tijan Sila and Tierchen unlimited ), taz , February 25, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief portrait on kiwi-verlag.de , accessed on December 31, 2018
- ↑ Scholarship for Tijan Sila , come-on.de, October 5, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sila, Tijan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sarajevo , Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina |