Anila Wilms
Anila Wilms (* 1971 in Tirana ) is an Albanian writer.
Life
Anila Wilms was born in Tirana and grew up in the Albanian port city of Durrës . On her mother's side, she comes from a family of rich and politically influential Beys , who were expropriated and disempowered after 1945 as the “natural” enemies of the communist regime . From 1989 to 1993 she studied history and philology at the University of Tirana .
She came to Berlin in 1994 as a DAAD scholarship holder and has lived there as an author and journalist ever since. In August 2012, her first novel, The Albanian Oil or Murder on the Strait of the North , was published in Berlin and is based on historical research. She had initially written the book in Albanian and published it in Tirana in 2007. Then she translated the novel into German, adapted to the other readership.
Awards
- Advancement award of the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize 2013
- Stuttgart Crime Prize 2013
- Comburg scholarship 2014
Works
- Anila Wilms: Vrasje në rrugën e veriut . Onufri, Tirana 2007, ISBN 978-99943-42-16-7 .
- The Albanian Oil or Murder on the Strait of the North . Transit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88747-279-5 .
Web links
- Short biography and reviews of works by Anila Wilms at perlentaucher.de
- Interview with Anila Wilms , DAAD magazine 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hot off the press. Wilms, The Albanian Oil. (No longer available online.) In: Transit Verlag. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016 ; accessed on February 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Thekla Dannenberg: "Albania is a very grim country". In: Zeit Online. December 4, 2012, accessed October 14, 2016 .
- ^ Anila Wilms: Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Promotional Prize 2013. In: Robert Bosch Stiftung. Retrieved October 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Award of the 2014 Comburg Scholarship to Anila Wilms ( Memento from May 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilms, Anila |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Albanian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tirana |