Karosh Taha

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Karosh Taha 2018

Karosh Taha (* 1987 in Zaxo , Iraq ) is a Kurdish-German writer. She has received several awards for her texts, including the Hohenems Literature Prize and the Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Scholarship .

Life

Karosh Taha came to Germany with her parents in 1997, where she grew up in Duisburg - for over ten years only with a tolerated status . She completed a teaching degree at the University of Duisburg-Essen as well as in the United States with the subjects English and history and worked as a teacher at a grammar school in Essen. Between her writing phases, she continues to work as a substitute teacher.

Her debut novel Description of a Crab Migration , which emerged from the short story Displaced persons, was published by DuMont Buchverlag in 2018 . In it, the author tells the story of an increasingly alienating Kurdish family. The first-person narrator Sanaa oscillates between “emancipation and social control” and experiences the “ ambivalence ” of migrant family structures. The radio play version of her novel will be broadcast on WDR3 and COSMO in 2020.

Her novel In the Belly of the Queen , published in 2020, is conceived as a "book of reversals": two alternative stories are told from a female and a male perspective about the unconventional - who breaks many conventions - main character Shahira and life in a Kurdish-German community.

Karosh Taha names Sandra Cisneros and Max Frisch as literary role models .

Awards

Works

Web links

Commons : Karosh Taha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Karosh Taha. In: dumont-buchverlag.de. December 12, 2019, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Karosh Taha | local history | Migration policy portal of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Richard Kämmerlings: Karosh Taha: Irak - Ruhrpott - Germany. A way of life . In: THE WORLD . March 16, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed June 27, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Karosh Taha wrote a novel about a Kurdish family in Germany. "Uncertainty and insecurity have shaped our ideas about the future." In: deutschlandstiftung.net. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  5. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Marie-Sophie Adeoso: monitors From a skyscraper. In: fr.de. March 21, 2018, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Burg Hülshoff Center for Literature: Karosh Taha - Burg Hülshoff. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded to young artists | The state portal Wir in NRW. November 26, 2018, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ten first works nominated for the Ulla Hahn Author Award. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  10. ^ German Literature Fund . Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Residence grants for young German-speaking authors. In: Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Literaturbüro Lueneburg Heinrich Heine Scholarship Karosh Taha. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  13. ↑ The 6th Hohenems Literature Prize goes to Karosh Taha - Stadtverwaltung Hohenems. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Results of the board meeting of the German Literature Fund on April 29 and 30, 2019. Accessed on June 27, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Rolf Dieter Brinkmann grant. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Taha, Karosh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaxo