Saša Stanišić Explained

Saša Stanišić (Serbian: Саша Станишић; born 7 March 1978) is a Bosnian-German writer.[1] [2] He was born in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina as the son of a Bosniak mother and a Serbian father.[3] In the spring of 1992, he fled alongside his family to Germany as a refugee of the Bosnian War.[4] Stanišić spent the remainder of his youth in Heidelberg, where his teachers encouraged his passion for writing. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in the University of Heidelberg, graduating with degrees in Slavic studies and German as a second language.

In 2006, Stanišić released his debut novel, published in English as How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone. The book won multiple awards both in Germany and abroad and has been translated into 31 languages as of 2019.[5] The English translation by Anthea Bell was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.[6] It was also adapted for the stage by the Stadtschauspielhaus Graz, where Stanišić was the city's writer-in-residence in 2006–2007.[7]

In 2019 he won the German Book Prize for his novel Herkunft (English title: Where You Come From). In his acceptance speech Stanišić expressed his discontent with the decision of the Nobel Committee to award the 2019 Literature Nobel Prize to the Austrian author Peter Handke. Stanišić criticized Handke for his support of Slobodan Milošević, saying, "I had the fortune to escape that which Peter Handke does not describe in his texts."[8] [9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sasa Stanisic wins German Book Prize, criticizes Nobel winner Peter Handke DW 14.10.2019 . www.dw.com . Deutsche Welle . 13 September 2020 . en . 14 October 2019.
  2. Web site: Writing against disappearance – Saša Stanišić . Christoph . Schröder . . April 2014 . 14 October 2019 .
  3. Web site: НАЈБОЉИ МЛАДИ ЊЕМАЧКИ ПИСАЦ: "Тата је Србин, мама Бошњакиња, ја сам Нијемац рођен у Вишеграду" . 24 January 2017 . 6yka.com . 18 October 2019 . sr.
  4. Web site: Lehrauftrag für Saša Stanišic . Watschounek . Volker . 3 September 2019 . wiesbaden-lebt.de . 18 October 2019 . de.
  5. Web site: Saša Stanišić: "Herkunft". 2021-03-25. www.goethe.de. de.
  6. Web site: Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. The Queen's College . https://web.archive.org/web/20120323095407/http://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/about-queens/history/weidenfeld-prize/ . 23 March 2012 . dead.
  7. Web site: Go home: Sasa Stanisic, Suse Wächter, Tom Kühnel Go west – Eine Familie wandert aus. der-theaterverlag.de . 18 October 2019 . de.
  8. Web site: Sasa Stanisic: "Handke spoil my own book price". The Limited Times. 15 October 2019. 16 October 2019.
  9. Web site: Peter Handke hits out at criticism of Nobel win. Philip Oltermann. The Guardian. 16 October 2019. 16 October 2019.
  10. Web site: Saša Stanišić ist Alfred-Döblin-Preisträger 2013 . Akademie der Künste, Berlin . de . 18 July 2020.
  11. Web site: Preisverleihung 2019 . Deutscher Buchpreis . de . 18 July 2020.
  12. News: Marbacher Schillerpreis geht an Autor Sasa Stanisic . Die Zeit . 6 May 2021 . de . 21 July 2021.
  13. News: Saša Stanišić Wins Angelus Central European Literature Award . 18 November 2023 . Poland Daily 24 . 15 October 2023.

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