Shani Boianjiu
Shani Boianjiu (born 1987 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli author.
Life
Shani Boianjiu has Iraqi and Romanian roots. She grew up in Western Galilee in Kfar Vradim and Ma'alot . Boianjiu completed her two-year military service, most recently as a sergeant , in the Israeli army and then studied literature at Harvard University in the USA until 2011 . Her short stories, written in English, have been published in the New York Times and New Yorker . In 2011, Boianjiu was voted one of the “5 under 35” by the American National Book Foundation on the recommendation of Nicole Krauss .
Boianjiu wrote in her first novel The People of Eternity Knows No Fear from the current Israeli world of experience of military service, which Yitzhak Laor , Michal Zamir and Ron Leshem had already discussed before her . The book rights to the novel had already been sold in nineteen countries when it was published.
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The people of forever are not afraid: a novel . Hogarth, London 2012
- The people of eternity have no fear . Novel. Translated by Maria Hummitzsch , Ulrich Blumenbach . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2013 ISBN 978-3-462-04558-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Shani Boianjiu in the catalog of the German National Library
- Shani Boianjiu , at Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Sex, weapons and boredom , Die Welt , by Andreas Rosenfelder, September 2, 2013; Retrieved September 22, 2013
- Shani Boianjiu on Her New Novel and Female Soldiers in Israel , e-mail interview with John Williams, The New York Times , September 26, 2012; Retrieved September 22, 2013
- Full text: Short story Things I Have Done I Cannot Undo , English, Globe and Mail , October 5, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Marko Martin: Happiness is a smell of Malboro and gasoline , Literary World , September 14, 2013, p. 6; Retrieved September 22, 2013
- ↑ Noah Charney: Shani Boianjiu: How I Write , The Daily Beast, July 10, 2013; Retrieved September 22, 2013
- ↑ 5 under 35 , National Book Foundation
- ↑ Bernadette Conrad: The battlefield in the heart | NZZ . January 3, 2014, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch ).
- ↑ Andreas Rosenfelder: War literature: Sex, weapons and boredom . In: The world . September 2, 2013 ( welt.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boianjiu, Shani |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jerusalem |