melinda nadj abonji – European Literature Network

Jan 24^th

The Swiss Riveter: At Home Abroad – Attempts at Integration by Melinda Nadj Abonji, extracts from her keynote speech at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018, translated by Max Easterman

YOU’RE A TREE – SO WHERE ARE YOU FROM? My kindergarten teacher was a kindly soul: one day, she dressed me up as a tree, with brown trousers, a dark-green felt hat on my head an

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Jan 01^st

From SCHILDKRÖTENSOLDAT (‘Shellshock’) by Melinda Nadj Abonji (SUHRKAMP, 2017), translated and introduced by Alyson Combes

Set in the 1990s, against the backdrop of the Yugoslav Wars, this clever and intriguing novel explores the impact of war and celebrates the beauty of language. The protagonist, a y

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