Melinda Nadj Abonji
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Melinda Nadj Abonji
| image = Melinda Nadj Abonji.JPG
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| caption = Nadj Abonji at a reading in 2011
| birth_date = 22 June 1968
| birth_place = Bečej, Yugoslavia
| occupation = Writer
}}Melinda Nadj Abonji (born 22 June 1968 in Bečej, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian-Swiss writer, musician, and performance artist. 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.
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.{{Cite web|url=http://archive.new-books-in-german.com/english/858/299/299/129002/design1.html|title=Prize Winner: Melinda Nadj Abonji {{!}} New Books in German, Melinda Nadj Abonji: Tauben fliegen auf , Rights|website=archive.new-books-in-german.com|language=en|access-date=25 March 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://readingintranslation.com/2015/09/17/boundless-language-melinda-nadj-abonjis-fly-away-pigeon-translated-by-tess-lewis/|title=Boundless Language: Melinda Nadj Abonji's Fly Away, Pigeon, Translated by Tess Lewis|date=17 September 2015|website=Reading in Translation|access-date=25 March 2017}}
Works
- {{cite book | last=Nadj Abonji | first=Melinda | title=Tauben fliegen auf Roman |publisher=Jung und Jung | publication-place=Salzburg | date=2010 | isbn=978-3-902497-78-9 | oclc=699608457 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Nadj Abonji | first=Melinda |author-mask=2 | title=Im Schaufenster im Frühling Roman |publisher=Jung und Jung | publication-place=Salzburg | date=2011 | isbn=978-3-902497-86-4 | oclc=712435209 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Nadj Abonji | first=Melinda |author-mask=2 | title=Schildkrötensoldat Roman |publisher=Suhrkamp Verlag | publication-place=Berlin | date=2017 | isbn=978-3-518-42759-0 | oclc=984749412 | language=de}}
=English translations=
- {{cite book | last=Abonji | first=Melinda Nadj | title=Fly Away, Pigeon | publisher=Seagull Books | publication-place=Calcutta | date=2014 | isbn=978-0-85742-212-5}}
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Category:21st-century Hungarian women writers
Category:German Book Prize winners
Category:Intakt Records artists
Category:Swiss Book Prize winners
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