Mariam Kühsel-Hussaini
Mariam Kühsel-Hussaini (* December 23, 1987 in Kabul ) is a German-speaking writer .
Life
Born as the daughter of the Afghan poet Sayed Rafat Hussaini and granddaughter of the Afghan calligrapher Sayed Da'ud Hussaini, she came into exile in Germany in 1990 . Today she lives as a writer in Berlin and is married.
God in the Grain of Rice (2010)
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Her much-praised first work, Gott im Reiskorn, is about a young art historian from Berlin who traveled to Afghanistan in the 1950s , was accepted into a calligraphy family and experienced the true soul of the Orient: poetry. Kühsel-Hussaini describes a culture of her own family that was lost due to the invasion of the Soviet Union and religious tyranny.
criticism
The book made it to the finals of the aspekte literature award 2010.
Denis Scheck presented the book on the TV show hot off the press and said: "It was high time for such a book about Afghanistan." [...] "Mariam Kühsel-Hussaini has made an impressive debut with her family novel." Felicitas von Lovenberg praised in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Kühsel-Hussainis "visually powerful, astonishingly mature and carefully selected self-confident language that follows its own calligraphy with every description and every precisely drawn adjective flourish". Hans-Jost Weyandt wrote in Spiegel Online : “Everything is an event in a language that strikes a very high note, which fascinates when it solemnly indulges, playfully digresses, exuberantly squiggles, enticingly plays around. And it annoys when the striving for the higher expression is again exhausted in a hail of superlatives and the style blossoms in a meaningless way. "
Downhill (2011)
The novel was once again met with polarizing criticism due to its romantically charged main character, the young Potsdam management consultant Max Freydorn, who is haunted by “too much soul” (Kühsel-Hussaini, Departure ).
Assassination attempt on Adam (2012)
The third novel, which takes place in the Jerusalem of the present and whose main character Adam Tessdorf leads the reader through faith, death and love and through the "secrets of existence" (Kühsel-Hussaini, assassination attempt on Adam ), tells of the famous holy scrolls of Qumran .
Works
- Gott im Reiskorn (novel), Berlin University Press, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940432-88-9 .
- Gott im Reiskorn (audio book), Berlin University Press, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86280-009-4 .
- Departure (novel), Berlin University Press, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86280-010-0 .
- Assassination attempt on Adam (novel), Berlin University Press, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86280-040-7 .
- Tschudi (Roman), Rowohlt, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-498-00137-7 .
Awards
Writer's grant from the Else Heiliger Fund of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation 2013/2014.
Web links
- God in the grain of rice at perlentaucher.de
- Literature by and about Mariam Kühsel-Hussaini in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b You are Berlin: Mariam Kühsel-Hussaini - The world connector , tip Berlin
- ^ Kühsel-Hussaini (2010): God in the rice grain.
- ↑ west.art magazine, WDR
- ↑ Aspect Literature Prize: Five Books in the Final , Börsenblatt, September 22, 2010
- ↑ Review: Mariam Kühsel-Hussaini - Gott im Reiskorn ( Memento from January 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Review in the FAZ
- ↑ In the parallel world there are sausages for everyone , Spiegel Online, October 20, 2010
- ↑ A monster looking for meaning by Vladimir Balzer, Deutschlandradio Kultur, November 11, 2011
- ↑ The Song of Songs to Beauty , Neue Zürcher Zeitung of December 6, 2011
- ↑ In these pearl moments a brightness came over his face in FAZ of December 3, 2012, page 26
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kühsel-Hussaini, Mariam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Afghan writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kabul |