Melinda Nadj Abonji

The Hungarian-Swiss writer Melinda Nadj Abonji was born in 1968 in Bečej in the former Yugoslavia, now Serbia. She studied German and History in Zurich, where she still lives today. Best known for her novels and essays, she also writes plays and audio books. Among many awards, the Swiss and German Book Prize for her novel Tauben fliegen auf (2010) stand out. Her novel Schildkrötensoldat (2017) was awarded the ZKB Schiller Prize and the Erich-Fried-Prize. Most recently, her essay Gesittete Grausamkeit (2024) was published in the online magazine ‘Republik’.