Irena Brežná

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Irena Brežná (born February 26, 1950 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak - Swiss writer and journalist .

Irena Brežná (2014)

Life

Irena Brežná grew up in Trenčín and graduated from high school in Bratislava. After the crackdown on the Prague Spring , her parents emigrated with her to Switzerland in 1968. In 1975 she completed her studies in Slavic Studies , Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland . She then worked as an interpreter for Swiss authorities looking after migrants, as a Russian teacher and at psychological research institutes in Basel and Munich . At the same time, she was involved with Amnesty International and as a women's rights activist in several projects in Guinea, Eastern Europe and Chechnya .

Works (selection)

  • 1986: So I came under the Swiss , Slovak fragments
  • 1989: The flaky skin
  • 1989: Biro and Barbara , children's book
  • 1991: Caribbean Ball
  • 1996: False Myths. Reports from Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Wall
  • 1997: The Sernovodsk Wolves. Reports from Chechnya
  • 2003: The collector of souls. On the way in my Europe
  • 2008: The Best of All Worlds , novel
  • 2010: dandruff
  • 2012: The ungrateful stranger , novel. Verlag Galiani, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86971-052-5 .
  • 2018: How I was born, at home in the language . Rotpunktverlag , Zurich, ISBN 978-3-85869-795-0

Awards

literature

  • Federal Literature Awards. Prize winners 2012, pp. 13–24 and 124, ed. from the Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA, Federal Office of Culture FOC, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9523843-7-4

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SURNAME Brežná, Irena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brezna, Irena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak-Swiss writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava , Czechoslovakia