Mona Yahia

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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.

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Life and career

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.

Selected works

Awards

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.

Yahia spent nearly one year as writer-in-residence in Istanbul – 2013/14, in the “Atelier Galata”, a program established by the Arts Council of the city of Cologne, and again in 2017 under the same program, funded by the Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf.

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References

  1. Kölnisches Stadtmuseum (catalogue) (1999). Menschen wie Du und Ich – Vier Künstlerinnen zur dokumentarischen Ausstellung Vernichtungskrieg – Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941–1944 (in German). Cologne (Germany): Korridor Verlag. ISBN   3-9804354-6-6.
  2. Frauenmuseum Bonn & Galerie Münsterland (catalogue) (2002). Ambivalenzen – zeitgenössische jüdische Künstlerinnen in Deutschland (in German). Bonn (Germany): Frauenmuseum Bonn. ISBN   3-928239-66-X.
  3. Karpf, Ann (25 November 2000). "Here comes that car again". The Guardian.
  4. Alev, Adil (15 December 2000). "Barbie among the Bedouin". Times Literary Supplement. p. 22.
  5. "Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Current Issue". www.banipal.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  6. "Jewish Quarterly Wingate prize".