Mina Hava
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Mina Hava
Mina Hava, born in 1998, studied Global History and Science Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and Creative Writing at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. Für Seka is her debut novel.
Mina Hava, born in 1998, studied Global History and Science Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and Creative Writing at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. Für Seka is her debut novel.
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Alfred Döblin-Medaille
Alfred Döblin-Medaille
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Year of Publication: 2023
Mina HavaYear of Publication: 2023
For Seka
All that is left is an envelope with a handful of photographs – as well as the fear of her father, the worry for her mother and her brother, and the knots in her chest. In her early twenties, Seka is looking for the traces of her broken family and of her scattered life up to this point. She reconstructs her parents’ journey from Bosnia to Switzerland and asks about the...
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