Mona Yahia (born 1954 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an artist and writer; she publishes novels, stories, short stories and participates in art exhibitions and events.
Mona Yahia was born and raised in Baghdad, fled with her family to Iran in 1970, and from there immigrated to Israel. She did her military service between 1972 and 1974 and then studied psychology and French at the University of Tel Aviv. After a one-year stay in Paris, she went on to study clinical psychology in Tel Aviv and worked as a psychologist. In 1985 she moved to Germany to study fine arts at the Academy of Arts in Kassel with Harry Kramer. During these years she used photographs and everyday objects (soap, postcards, beer mats, cinnamon stars) [1] [2] to comment the culture of remembrance of the German society with regard to the Shoah.
In 2000, Mona Yahia published the novel When the Grey Beetles Took over Baghdad in London which portrays Jewish life in Baghdad in the 1960s and the plight of the Jewish community after the Six Day War from the point of view of a teenager [3] [4] and in 2003 the Price of the Jury der Jungen Leser in Vienna/Austria. The novel was translated into German and French.
Mona Yahia lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
When the Grey Beetles Took over Baghdad won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction [6] in 2001, and in 2003 the Jury's Prize der Jungen Leser in Vienna, Austria.
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