Jina Khayyer
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Jina Khayyer
Jina Khayyer is a writer, poet, painter and journalist. Born in Germany and of Iranian descent, Khayyer has been living in Paris and Provence since 2006. She writes in German, French and English for a number of publications in various countries, including The Gentlewoman, Fantastic Man and Apartamento. Her poems and drawings were recently exhibited at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden as part of the group exhibition SEA AND FOG (2024). In the Heart of the Cat is her debut novel and her first publication with Suhrkamp Verlag.
Jina Khayyer is a writer, poet, painter and journalist. Born in Germany and of Iranian descent, Khayyer has been living in Paris and Provence since 2006. She writes in German, French and English for a number of publications in various countries, including The Gentlewoman, Fantastic Man and Apartamento. Her poems and drawings were recently exhibited at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden as part of the group exhibition SEA AND FOG (2024). In the Heart of the Cat is her debut novel and her first publication with Suhrkamp Verlag.
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»I see the lifeless body of a young woman. The colours of an intensive care unit, pale blue, turquoise-green, ice-grey. Blood stuck to her ear. Instagram conceals nothing. Regardless of how many filters are placed on the pictures, anybody who wants can see the brutal reality. I read: Jina Mahsa Amini was beaten into a coma with a baton by the morality police. Now she is dead. I read her name again, Jina, Jina with a »J«. I have never heard of anyone with the same name as me.« From In the...
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»I see the lifeless body of a young woman. The colours of an intensive care unit, pale blue, turquoise-green, ice-grey. Blood stuck to her ear. Instagram conceals nothing. Regardless of how many filters are placed on the pictures, anybody who wants can see the brutal reality. I read: Jina Mahsa Amini was beaten into a coma with a baton by the morality police. Now she is dead. I read her name again, Jina, Jina with a »J«. I have never heard of anyone with the same name as me.« From In the Heart of the Cat
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Year of Publication: 2025
Jina KhayyerYear of Publication: 2025
In the Heart of the Cat
»I see the lifeless body of a young woman. The colours of an intensive care unit, pale blue, turquoise-green, ice-grey. Blood stuck to her ear. Instagram conceals nothing. Regardless of how many...
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