Melinda Nadj Abonji

Melinda Nadj Abonji (born 22 June 1968 in Bečej, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian-Swiss writer, musician, and performance artist.[1] 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.

Melinda Nadj Abonji
Melinda Nadj Abonji at a reading in 2011
Melinda Nadj Abonji at a reading in 2011
Born22 June 1968
Bečej, Yugoslavia
OccupationWriter

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.[1][2]

Works
  • Nadj Abonji, Melinda (2010). Tauben fliegen auf Roman (in German). Salzburg. ISBN 978-3-902497-78-9. OCLC 699608457.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • —— (2011). Im Schaufenster im Frühling Roman (in German). Salzburg. ISBN 978-3-902497-86-4. OCLC 712435209.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • ——; Suhrkamp Verlag (2017). Schildkrötensoldat Roman (in German). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-518-42759-0. OCLC 984749412.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

English translations
  • Abonji, Melinda Nadj; Lewis, Tess (2014). Fly away, pigeon. London. ISBN 978-0-85742-212-5. OCLC 899253680.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References
  1. "Prize Winner: Melinda Nadj Abonji | New Books in German, Melinda Nadj Abonji: Tauben fliegen auf , Rights". archive.new-books-in-german.com. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  2. "Boundless Language: Melinda Nadj Abonji's Fly Away, Pigeon, Translated by Tess Lewis". Reading in Translation. 17 September 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2017.


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