Nasrin victories

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Nasrin Siege (* 1950 in Tehran , Iran ) is a German-Iranian children's book author, collector of African fairy tales and development worker living in Africa.

Live and act

The native Iranian came to Germany with her family at the age of nine. Here she grew up in Hamburg and Flensburg . After studying psychology and education at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , she worked as a psychotherapist at a psychosomatic clinic in Friedrichsdorf / Ts with addicts. With her husband, a German development worker, she has lived in Africa (Tanzania, Zambia, Tanzania, Madagascar and, since 2008, in Ethiopia) - with brief interruptions - since 1983. Nasrin Siege is involved in street children projects in Africa, which she supports both with advice and financially with the means of the association "Help for Africa eV" founded by her and friends. Nasrin Siege writes books for children and young people with an intercultural approach and collects African fairy tales. She also writes articles in anthologies, yearbooks and the children's magazine Der Bunte Hund . For her books Sombo, the girl from the river (1990) and How the river in my village (1994), published by Beltz & Gelberg , Siege received the 1994 Children's Book Prize from the Berlin Senate's commissioner for foreigners. In 2006 she received the Two Wings Award for her work in children's aid projects.

particularities

Nasrin Siege has been involved in children's aid projects in Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar and Ethiopia since 1994, which she supports financially with the association “Hilfe für Afrika eV”.

bibliography

  • Sombo, the girl from the river , story, Beltz, Weinheim 1990.
  • Kalulu and other African fairy tales , Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Like the river in my village , narration, Beltz, Weinheim 1994.
  • The day of the rainbow. Fairy tales, myths and stories , Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Shirin , Roman, Beltz, Weinheim 1996.
  • Juma. A street child from Tanzania , Beltz, Weinheim 1998.
  • Live on your own. Stories of street children from four continents , Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  • When the elephants came , Roman, Beltz, Weinheim 2001.
  • Hyenas in the tall grass. Traces in the Serengeti , story, Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • The Pirates of Libertalia , Novel, Bloomsbury 2009.
  • Why the lion roars , picture book, text: Nasrin Siege, illustrations by Barbara Nascimbeni, Peter Hammer Verlag 2009.
  • I return, Dadabé , Roman, Brandes & Apsel 2011.
  • The track of the elephant , novel, Razamba Verlag, 2014
  • Shirin - Where do I belong? , Roman, Razamba Verlag, 2015
  • The honey bird. Stories from Africa , short stories, Razamba Verlag, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Wins, Nasrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iranian children's book author, collector of African fairy tales and development worker
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran