Global Literature – Describing an Unjust World. Authors in Conversation
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Nuruddin FARAH
Author, Cape Town
| 1964 | Secondary schooling at Magistrale, Mogadiscio |
| 1966-1970 | BA Panjab University, Chandigarh, India |
| 1971-1974 | Lecturer, National University of Somalia |
| 1981 | Guest Professor, Bayreuth University, Germany |
| 1981-1983 | Ass. Professor, University of Jos, Nigeria |
| 1989 | Writer-in-residence, University of Minnesota |
| 1988-1990 | Makarere University, Uganda |
| 1991 | Brown University |
| 1996 | Rhodes Scholar, St Antony's College, Oxford |
| 1997 | Visiting Professor, English, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2000 | Doctor of Literature (honoris causa), University of Kent, Canterbury |
| 2006 | Ecole des Haute Etudes en Science Sociale, Paris |
| 2007 | Visiting Professor, Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2009 | Department of English, University of Berkeley Spring |
Ilija TROJANOW
Author, Translator, Publisher, Vienna
| Trojanow was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1965. In 1971 his family fled Bulgaria through Yugoslavia and Italy to Germany, where they received political asylum. In 1972 the family travelled on to Kenya, where Ilija's father had obtained a job as engineer. Ilija Trojanow lived in Nairobi until 1984. After a stay in Paris, he studied law and ethnology at Munich University from 1985 to 1989. He interrupted these studies to found Kyrill-und-Method-Verlag in 1989, and after that Marino-Verlag in 1992, both of which specialised in African literature. In 1999 Trojanow moved to Mumbai and became intensely involved with Indian life and culture. He has lived in Cape Town, returned to Germany (Mainz), and then to Austria, where he currently resides in Vienna. In the 1990s Trojanow wrote several non-fiction and travel books about Africa, published an anthology of contemporary African literature and translated African authors into German. His first novel, "Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall", appeared in 1996. His reportage "Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam" describes a pilgrimage to Mecca. Since 2002 Ilija Trojanow has been member of the PEN centre of the Federal Republic of Germany. Among other awards he received the Bertelsmann Literature Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in Klagenfurt in 1995, the Marburg Literature Prize in 1996, the Thomas Valentin Prize in 1997, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 2000 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category of fiction for his novel "Der Weltensammler" (The Collector of Worlds) in 2006. In 2013 Trojanow had criticized the National Security Agency (NSA). In the same year he was denied entry into the USA for undisclosed reasons. He planned to attend a scholar's conference there. |
Mag. Dr. Sigrid LÖFFLER
Literary Critic, Author and Publicist, Berlin
| 1960-1966 | Studies in German and English literature and philosophy, University of Vienna |
| 1966 | Master of philosophy, University of Vienna |
| 1967-1968 | German language teacher in England |
| 1968-1972 | Editor, Foreign Affairs desk, Vienna daily «Die Presse» |
| 1972-1993 | Cultural editor and vice editor-in-chief, Austrian news magazine «profil» |
| 1988-1996 | Cultural correspondent in Vienna, «Süddeutsche Zeitung», Munich |
| 1993-1996 | Freelancing contributor to various German and Swiss dailies and weeklies |
| 1987-2000 | Permanent member, German TV-Show «Das Literarische Quartett», ZDF |
| 1996-1999 | Cultural chief-of-staff, Hamburg weekly «Die Zeit» |
| 2000-2008 | Founder and editor-in-chief, literary monthly magazine «Literaturen» in Berlin |
| since 2008 | Freelancing literary critic for various German and Austrian media and moderator of literary events in Germany, Austria and Switzerland |
| Guest lecturer at various universities in Germany, USA and Israel | |
| 2010 | Honorary doctor degree, University of Bielefeld |
