Nava Ebrahimi

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Nava Ebrahimi
Born1978
NationalityIran
OccupationAuthor
EmployerFinancial Times Deutschland

Nava Ebrahimi (born 1978 in Tehran) is a German writer living in Austria. She won a 2017 Austrian Book Prize.[1][2]

Life[change | change source]

She studied journalism and economics in Cologne. She worked as a journalist for the Financial Times Deutschland and the Cologne City Revue.[3] She was a consultant for the Federal Agency for Foreign Trade. In 2007 she was a finalist in the Open Mike literary award. In 2013 she was in the Bavarian Academy of Writing.

For her first novel Sixteen Words, she won the €10,000 debut prize of the 2017 Austrian Book Award. In 2020 she published her second novel, Das Paradies meines Nachbarn, about Ali Najjar.

In 2018 she was invited to the New Literature Festival in New York City .[4]

Works[change | change source]

Anthologies in English
  • Radka Denemarková; Margarethe Makovec; Anton Lederer; Nava Ebrahimi; Olga Flor; Guerrilla der Aufklärung/ Guerilla of Enlightenment, Wien Verlag für moderne Kunst 2020. ISBN 9783903320949

References[change | change source]

  1. "Österreichischer Buchpreis 2017: Shortlist bekanntgegeben". OTS.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  2. Sieder-Grabner, Kultur-Land Steiermark, Petra. "Klischees törnen ab". www.kultur.steiermark.at (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2020-06-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. "Nava Ebrahimi". Verlagsgruppe Random House (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  4. "Deutsche Autoren im Big Apple". www.boersenblatt.net (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  5. "Book review: Nava Ebrahimi's "Das Paradies meines Nachbarn": The scars of war - Qantara.de". Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  6. "Nava Ebrahimi - Gesprächszeit - Bremen Zwei - Radio Bremen". www.radiobremen.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  7. NDR. "Nava Ebrahimi: "Das Paradies meines Nachbarn"". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  8. "Nava Ebrahimi: "Das Paradies meines Nachbarn" - Als Minendetektor über Leichen laufen". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-29.