梅琳达·纳吉·阿波尼

Melinda Nadj Abonji (born 22 June 1968 in Bečej, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian-Swiss writer, musician, and performance artist. Melinda Nadj Abonji was born in the Hungarian part of Vojvodina, in present-day Serbia. She came to Switzerland at the age of 5 to join her refugee parents.

After finishing her studies at the University of Zurich, she wrote a novel, Fly Away, Pigeon, based on her refugee experiences, which in 2010 won the German Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize.

Works

Nadj Abonji, Melinda (2010). Tauben fliegen auf Roman (in German). Salzburg: Jung und Jung. ISBN 978-3-902497-78-9. OCLC 699608457.

—— (2011). Im Schaufenster im Frühling Roman (in German). Salzburg: Jung und Jung. ISBN 978-3-902497-86-4. OCLC 712435209.

—— (2017). Schildkrötensoldat Roman (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 978-3-518-42759-0. OCLC 984749412.

English translations

Abonji, Melinda Nadj (2014). Fly Away, Pigeon. Calcutta: Seagull Books. ISBN 978-0-85742-212-5.