Nava Ebrahimi

Nava Ebrahimi at the 17th  Wortspiele in Munich (2017)

Nava Ebrahimi (* 1978 in Tehran , Iran ) is a German writer. Her novel Sixteen Words has won several awards. In 2021 she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her text The Cousin .

Life

Ebrahimi attended the Cologne journalism school , studied economics in Cologne and worked, among other things, as an editor for the Financial Times Deutschland and the Cologne StadtRevue as well as a Middle East advisor for the Federal Agency for Foreign Trade . In 2007 she was a finalist at the Open Mike Literature Prize , and in 2013 she took part in the Bavarian Academy of Writing .

Since 2012 she has lived with her family in Graz , where she works as a copywriter. For her first novel, Sixteen Words , she was awarded the debut prize worth 10,000 euros at the 2017 Austrian Book Prize. In this novel, her protagonist Mona travels with her mother from Cologne to Iran for her grandmother's funeral.

In 2018 she was invited to the New Literature Festival in New York City . In 2020 she published My Neighbor's Paradise , her second novel, which deals with the character of the eccentric Munich star designer and exiled Iranian Ali Najjar. The novel was put on the ORF best list in May and June 2020 .

By Klaus Kastberger it was in 2021 for the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition invited to her with the text cousin won.

Awards and nominations

• 2017: Debut Prize of the Austrian Book Prize for Sixteen Words
• 2017: Nomination for the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize for Sixteen Words
• 2017/2018: Project grant literature BKA
• 2019: Morgenstern Prize of the State of Styria for sixteen words
• 2019: Nomination for the AK literature prize of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor for The Return of Fear (extract from a novel)
• 2020: Rotahorn Literature Prize
• 2021: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

Publications (selection)

• 2017: Sixteen words. Novel. btb-Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-442-75679-7 .
• 2020: My neighbor's paradise. Novel. btb-Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-442-75869-2 .

Web links

Commons : Nava Ebrahimi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography and reviews of works by Nava Ebrahimi at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Random House publishing group: Nava Ebrahimi . Retrieved November 8, 2017.
2. ↑ Norbert Mappes-Niediek: Clichés turn off , Kultur-Land Steiermark, 2018.
3. ↑ Nava Ebrahimi. In: randomhouse.de. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Bachmann Prize goes to Nava Ebrahimi. In: ORF.at. June 20, 2021, accessed June 20, 2021 . 
5. ^ House for Poetry :: The Finalists. Retrieved June 20, 2021 . 
6. ^ Literary agency: Nava Ebrahimi . Retrieved November 8, 2017. She has published various short stories in anthologies , newspapers and magazines.
7. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Austrian Book Prize for Eva Menasse . Article dated November 7, 2017, accessed November 8, 2017.
8. ↑ orf.at: Austrian Book Prize to Eva Menasse . Article dated November 7, 2017, accessed November 7, 2017.
9. ^ Festival New Literature in New York: German Authors in the Big Apple . Article dated March 6, 2018, accessed March 7, 2018.
10. ↑ New novel by Nava Ebrahimi. In: ORF.at . February 24, 2020, accessed February 25, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Top 10 in May 2020. In: ORF.at . Retrieved April 29, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Top 10 in June 2020. In: ORF.at . Retrieved May 30, 2020 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} Bachmann Prize: Nava Ebrahimi (A). In: ORF.at . May 20, 2021, accessed May 20, 2021 . 
14. ↑ Here we go: The Harbor Front Festival in Hamburg. In: kulturnews.de. September 9, 2017, accessed August 19, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Awarded in November: Morgenstern Prize goes to Nava Ebrahimi. Kleine Zeitung , September 26, 2019, accessed on September 28, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Karin Seyringer: Grand Finale of the AK Literature Prize 2019: Award ceremony on October 4th in Linz. In: tips.at. September 29, 2019. Retrieved September 29, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Teresa Guggenberger: Rotahorn Literature Prize: These are the 2020 winners. Kleine Zeitung, September 8, 2020, accessed on September 16, 2020 .