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
The German Book Prize (''Deutscher Buchpreis'') is awarded annually, in October, by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association (''Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels'') to the best new German language novel of the year. The books, publ ...
and the
Swiss Book Prize
The Swiss Book Prize (german: link=no, Schweizer Buchpreis) is a literary award awarded annually by a jury on behalf of the Swiss Booksellers' Association. The prize amount is CHF 30,000. The award was instituted in 2008 following the example of ...
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Living people
Swiss women writers
Hungarian women writers
1968 births
German Book Prize winners
Intakt Records artists
Swiss Book Prize winners
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