Melinda Nadj Abonji was born in Becsej, Serbia, in 1968. She moved to Switzerland with her family in the early 1970s. She lives in Zurich where she works as an author and musician. She was awarded both the German and Swiss Book Prize for her 2010 novel Tauben fliegen auf.
Melinda Nadj Abonji was born in Becsej, Serbia, in 1968. She moved to Switzerland with her family in the early 1970s. She lives in Zurich where she works as an author and musician. She was awarded both the German and Swiss Book Prize for her 2010 novel Tauben fliegen auf.
Zoltán Kertész, blue-eyed son of a »half gypsy« and a day labourer with constantly changing lovers, is the outsider of his little town in Serbia. When a child, he fell out of his father’s hands...
France (Métailié), Italy (Keller), Arabic world rights (Tanmia), Serbia (Kulturni centar Novi Sad)