Falcons without falconers
Translation of: Tauben fliegen auf
Author:Melinda Nadj Abonji
Rights sold: Bosnian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish
Genre:Novel 
Number of pages:320 
Edition:132300 
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ISBN:978-3-902497-78-9 
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Publishing company:Jung und Jung, Salzburg 
The year of publishing:2010 
Origin Country:Austria 

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Melinda Nadj Abonji
Born 22 June 1968 in Becsej, Vojvodina, Nadj Abonji earned a master’s degree in German and history in Zurich, where she now lives as an author and musician (violin and vocals). She has collaborated since 1998 with poet and beatboxer Jurczok 1001 (text performance, music, theatre). She lectured from 2003 to 2009 at Zurich Teachers’ College, where she led a writing workshop, and has led her own writing workshop since 2007. Nadj Abonji’s first novel, Im Schaufenster im Frühling (In the Showcase in Spring), was published in 2004 and has been the recipient of numerous awards. Tauben fliegen auf (Falcons without Falconers), her second novel, has won the 2010 German Book Prize and the 2010 Swiss Book Prize.