Meral Kureyshi
Meral Kureyshi (born March 26, 1983 in Prizren ) is a Swiss writer .
Life
Meral Kureyshi was born in 1983 in Prizren in the former Yugoslavia . Her family belonged to the Turkish-speaking minority in Kosovo . She has lived in Bern since 1992 . She studied in Biel at the Swiss Literature Institute .
In 2015 her debut novel Elefanten im Garten was published by Limmat Verlag , with which she made it onto the shortlist of the Swiss Book Prize and for which she received the Canton of Bern Literature Prize in 2016. In 2020, Kureyshi read at the 44th Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt at the invitation of Martin Wiederstein .
Works
- Elephants in the garden . Novel. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85791-784-4 .
Web links
- Author page of the publisher
- Meral Kureyshi, Adam at: bachmannpreis.orf.at (June 20, 2020).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Author entry, Meral Kureyshi at: literaturport.de (March 4, 2016), accessed on June 21, 2020.
- ↑ No longer invisible: Meral Kureyshi steps out of literary anonymity with “Elephants in the Garden” . In: TagesWoche . October 19, 2015 ( tageswoche.ch [accessed November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ Swiss Book Prize 2015 (2015), accessed on June 21, 2020.
- ↑ Canton Bern awards seven literary prizes , on: boersenblatt.net (May 19, 2016), accessed on June 21, 2020.
- ↑ Meral Kureyshi, CH at: bachmannpreis.orf.at (2020), accessed on June 21, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kureyshi, Meral |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prizren |