Meral Kureyshi
Meral Kureyshi (born 26 March 1983 in Prizren) is a Swiss writer.
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Life
Meral Kureyshi was born in Prizren, Yugoslavia in 1983. Her family came from the Turkish-speaking minority in Kosovo. She has lived in Bern since 1992. She studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel.[1][2]
In 2015, her first novel, Elephants in the Garden, was published. She was shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize. She won the 2016 Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern. She read at the 2020 Bachmann Prize, at the invitation of Martin Wiederstein.[3]
Works
References
- ↑ "Meral Kureyshi | No Man's Land". Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ↑ "Meral Kureyshi im Gespräch mit Kaspar Surber - Aprillen - Das Berner Lesefest". www.aprillen.ch. Archived from the original on 2020-07-01. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ↑ "TEXT Meral Kureyshi, CH". Bachmannpreis (in Deutsch). 2020-06-20. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ↑ "Elefanten im Garten - Meral Kureyshi - Goethe-Institut Portugal". www.goethe.de. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ↑ "Meral Kureyshi". UBS Foundations. Archived from the original on 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2020-06-29.