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Ilija Trojanow
Author, translator, publisher | Born in 1965 in Bulgaria | 1971 fled to Germany with parents | 1972 relocated to Kenya | 1972 - 1984 lived in Nairobi – with a three year interruption in Germany (1977 - 1981) |
1984 – 1989 Studies in »Law, Ethnology und Disaster« at the Ludwigs-Maximilian University of Munich. 1989 foundation of the Marino publishing house specializing in African literature. Travels through Africa in the early 1990s | 1996 first novel »Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall« (The World is Wide and Salvation Lurks Everywhere) (Carl Hanser) | 1998 relocated to Bombay. Journalistic activities (reports, essays, etc. for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Neue Zürcher Zeitung) | 2001 three-month long march by foot through Tanzania on the trail of the English discoverer and orientalist Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890) | 2006 publication of the novel on Burton »Der Weltensammler« (The Collector of Worlds), which won the prize of the Leipzig book fair, and was on the German, Austrian, and Swiss best-seller list for months | May 2007 volume of reports »Nomade auf vier Kontinenten« (Nomad on Four Continents), Autumn 2007 the essay »Kampfabsage« written together with the Indian publicist Ranjit Hoskoté
Awards
Bertelsmann Literature Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 1995 | Marburg Literature Prize 1996, Adalbert von Chamisso Prize 2000 | Berlin Literature Prize 2007 |
Mainz City Authors’ Prize 2007
His books have been translated into Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, French, Dutch, Italian, Catalan, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Czech and Turkish.
Com(plot)– How does an author come up with the perfect com(plot)?
Telling stories is a basic human need. Yet as a fundamental part of literary success, this skill is often underestimated. In our course we will address the architecture of the plot as well as the statics, economics and spatiality of the plot as well as the crucial interplay between the development of the plot and the figures. We will also reflect on the links of dramaturgy, the points of culmination, the art of the beginning of the end. Because he who is able to tell a story …
Participation requirements and application documents
Outline the plot of a short story, novella or a novel as thoroughly as possible. Please also pay sufficient attention to the figures.
Maximum number of participants: 12
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