Shida Bazyar

Shida Bazyar (2016)

Shida Bazyar (* 1988 in Hermeskeil ) is a German writer .

Live and act

Shida Bazyars parents were political activists and fled in 1987 due to the impact of the Islamic Revolution from Iran . Shida Bazyar was born in Rhineland-Palatinate.

She studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim and then moved to Berlin, where she worked part-time as an educational advisor for young people who were doing voluntary service in Brandenburg and who spent the rest of the time as an author. First, she published short stories in magazines and anthologies. As part of the Klagenfurt Days of German Language Literature , she received a scholarship in 2012 in the literature course. She received a study grant from the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

In the spring of 2016, her well-respected and critically acclaimed debut novel, Night It Is Quiet in Tehran, was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch . The work has been awarded several prizes, including the Ulla Hahn Author Award and the Uwe Johnson Award . In her laudatory speech for the Uwe Johnson Prize, Mithu Sanyal described the debut novel as an “extremely important book” and “an exercise in empathy”. "Because the novel tells not only of flight and the loss of home, but also of the lack of roots in both cultures - and of the fact that this difficult relationship to roots can also be a home. [...] They are German stories, although that The book in Iran begins although the title says Tehran and although - no precisely because - the main characters in it are not white. ”Bazyar emphasizes that it is quiet at night in Theheran, although it has autobiographical features, but is by no means a family biography .

In various texts created in 2017, she dealt with experiences of racism and sexism . In February 2017, for example, she wrote for the newspaper Die Welt about the so-called Muslim Ban / the entry ban to the USA and in the summer wrote the text Craft Lessons in Hildesheim or Why I learned in Hildesheim that one -ism prevents me from the other to talk about published in Mercury .

Bazyar lives in Berlin and works in Brandenburg as an educational consultant in the care of young participants in a voluntary ecological year .

Awards

• 2016: Culture Prize of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Hanover , at night it is quiet in Tehran
• 2016: Ulla Hahn Author Award , for the same work
• 2016: The debut: Blogger Prize for Literature, for the same work
• 2017: Uwe-Johnson-Förderpreis , for the same work
• 2019: Nominated for the trilingual Euregio Student Literature Prize 2019, for the same work

Works

• It's quiet in Tehran at night. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04891-9 .

Web links

Commons : Shida Bazyar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Shida Bazyar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Shida Bazyar at perlentaucher.de
• Shida Bazyar on the Kiepenheuer & Witsch website
• You can riot in both cities. Interview by Ulf Lippitz and Björn Rosen with Shida Bazyar. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 16, 2016, accessed April 24, 2016
• Stephan Lohr: Iran novel by Shida Bazyar: Fled from the mullahs, arrived at Ulla. Book review. In: Spiegel Online . February 22, 2016. Retrieved March 25, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scholarship holders 2012. ORF Carinthia - Days of German Language Literature 2014. Accessed on April 25, 2016 . 
2. ^ Laudation by Mithu Sanyal to Shida Bazyar, winner of the Uwe Johnson Prize 2017 . In: Kiepenheuer & Witsch Blog . October 4, 2017 ( kiwi-verlag.de [accessed January 24, 2018]).
3. ↑ I don't want to live there. Frankfurter Neue Presse from February 16, 2016. Accessed April 25, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Shida Bazyar: I'm not allowed to play. Essay. In: The literary world , February 4, 2017, p. 1.
5. ↑ Handicraft lesson in Hildesheim or why I learned in Hildesheim that one -ism prevents me from talking about the other - Mercury. Accessed January 24, 2018 (German).