Rasha Khayat
Rasha Khayat (born 1978 in Dortmund ) is a Saudi-Arabic-German translator and writer.
Life
Rasha Khayat is a German author and translator. She grew up in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia. In 1988 the family moved back to Germany. Rasha Khayat graduated from high school in 1999 at the Ratsgymnasium Gladbeck. 1999-2005 she studied comparative literature, modern German literature and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn . In 2005 she completed a traineeship in the editing department at Rowohlt Verlag and has lived in Hamburg ever since .
She works as a freelance writer and translator from English and Arabic for fiction and theater.
Since 2010 she has been running the blog West Eastern Diva - The German Window to Arabistan . In 2010 she was a scholarship holder of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation .
Her first novel was published in 2016 because we have long been elsewhere . The novel was nominated for the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize for the best novel debut.
In 2016 she was Writer in Residence at the University of East Anglia , Norwich.
Works
novel
- Because we've long been somewhere else . DuMont, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8321-6409-6 .
Translations
- Lucy Hepburn: My best piece . Novel. Heyne, Munich 2009
- Jo Powell: The blood chamber . Thriller. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2009
- Kate White: Sleep quietly . Thriller. Ullstein, Berlin 2010
- Ella Kingsley: Dancing Queen . Novel. Ullstein, Berlin 2012
- Brodi Ashton: Eternal die Liebe (book for young people, with Sebastian Blum). Oetinger, Hamburg 2014
Awards
- 2017: Cross-border commuter scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation
- 2010: Residence grant from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation as a scholarship holder of the Roman writing workshop
Web links
- Literature by and about Rasha Khayat in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Rasha Khayat at perlentaucher.de
- http://www.zeit.de/2016/13/therapie-eltern-generationen-vermaechtnis-studie
- http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/gladbeck/autorin-rasha-khayat-erzaehlt-vom-leben-in-zwei-kulturen-id12313603.html
- http://www.gorki.de/de/you-know-i-do-not-remember
- http://www.bclt.org.uk/home
- http://www.gorki.de/de/ensemble/rasha-khayat
- http://www.westoestlichediva.com/
- Till-Reimer Stoldt (2016): West-Eastern Diva
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harbor Front Literature Festival: Genres - Harbor Front Literature Festival. In: harbourfront-hamburg.com. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Khayat, Rasha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saudi-Arabic-German translator and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |