Nava Ebrahimi

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Nava Ebrahimi
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Born1978
Tehran
OccupationWriter
LanguageGerman
Nationality Iran

Nava Ebrahimi (born 1978) is a German-Iranian writer.

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Biography

Nava Ebrahimi was born in Tehran in 1978. She was three when her family arrived in Cologne, where she later studied journalism and economics. She went on to work as a journalist and editor for the Financial Times Deutschland and the Cologne StadtRevue  [ de ]. She also worked as an advisor for the Federal Agency for Foreign Trade as well as a copywriter. She has lived in Graz with her husband Matthias and their children since 2012. Ebrahimi attended the Bavarian Academy of Writing in 2013. Her first novel came out and won the 2017 Austrian Book award for a debut novel. Ebrahimi has been nominated and won a number of awards including the Austrian book award. She was given a grant for literature in 2017 and won the Red maple literature prize in 2020. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] In 2021, Ebrahimi was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for Der Cousin. [8] [9] [10]

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References

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  2. "Book review: Nava Ebrahimi's "Das Paradies meines Nachbarn": The scars of war – Qantara.de". Qantara.de – Dialogue with the Islamic World.
  3. "Nava Ebrahimi". Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe (in German).
  4. Sieder-Grabner, Kultur-Land Steiermark, Petra. "Klischees törnen ab". www.kultur.steiermark.at (in German).
  5. "Österreichischer Buchpreis an Eva Menasse". wien.orf.at (in German). 7 November 2017.
  6. "Neuer Roman von Nava Ebrahimi". oe1.orf.at (in German).
  7. Baumhackl, Ute (26 September 2019). "Verleihung im November: Morgenstern-Preis geht an Nava Ebrahimi". www.kleinezeitung.at (in German). Event occurs at 19:35.
  8. "Nava Ebrahimi". Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe (in German). 28 November 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  9. "TEXT Nava Ebrahimi (A)". Bachmannpreis (in German). 19 June 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  10. "Bachmannpreisträgerin Nava Ebrahimi – "Alles kann eines Tages gegen dich verwendet werden"". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). 20 June 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.

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