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Ilija Trojanow

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Ilija Trojanow was born in 1965 in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1971 he fled with his parents to Germany via Yugoslavia and Italy, and was granted political asylum in Munich. A year later, his family moved to Kenya, where Trojanow lived until 1984. From 1984-1989 he studied Law and Ethnology in Munich. In 1998 he moved to Mumbai, in 2003 to Kapstadt. He currently lives in Vienna as a writer, translator and publisher.

https://trojanow.de/
 
(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2018 Vilenica International Literary Award
  • 2018 Austrian Book Industry Honorary Prize for Tolerance in Thought and Deed
  • 2018 Usedom Literature Prize
  • 2017 Heinrich Böll Prize
  • 2011 Carl Amery Literature Prize
  • 2010 Würth Prize for European Literature
  • 2007 Berlin Literature Prize
  • 2000 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
  • 1996 Marburg Literature Prize

More Publications

Doppelte Spur.
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2020.
 
Nach der Flucht
S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2017.
 
Macht und Widerstand
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2015.
 
Der überflüssige Mensch
Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten 2013.
 
EisTau
Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011.
 
Der entfesselte Globus. Reportagen
Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008.
 
Nomade auf vier Kontinenten. Auf den Spuren von Sir Richard Francis Burton
Die andere Bibliothek / Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt 2007.
 
Die fingierte Revolution. Bulgarien, eine exemplarische Geschichte
dtv, Munich 2006.
 
Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam. Als Pilger nach Mekka und Medina
Malik Verlag, Munich 2004.
 
An den inneren Ufern Indiens. Eine Reise entlang des Ganges
Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2003.
 
Autopol
dtv, Munich 1997.

Featured Books

Book cover The world collector

Der Weltensammler
[The world collector]

Carl Hanser Verlag

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