{"id":40821,"date":"2022-05-13T14:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestivalberlin.de\/authors\/nasrin-siege\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T20:07:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:07:31","slug":"nasrin-siege","status":"publish","type":"authors","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/nasrin-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasrin Siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nasrin Siege<\/strong>was born in Iran in 1950 and came to Germany when she was nine years old.\u00a0 She grew up in Hamburg and Flensburg, studied Psychology and Pedagogics in Kiel and worked as a psychotherapist in a hospital for drug addicts in Friedrichdorf, Taunus. Since 1983 Nasrin Siege has lived for extensive periods of time in Africa with her husband, a German development worker. She works as a freelance writer, is engaged in traditional healing methods, collects fairly tales and is interested in African art. She is involved in several projects with street children in Tanzania, is a counseller in the children\u2019s remand prison of Dar-Es-Salaam, and founded with friends the organization &#8220;Hilfe f\u00fcr Afrika e.V.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nasrin Siege\u2019s texts deal with prejudices towards other cultures.\u00a0 They dismantle clich\u00e9s and look into the circumstances of children in diverse cultures. \u201cAs a child, I was often angry about the representation of other cultures in young people\u2019s books either as \u201cexotic\u201d, as scenery for the white heroes, or as object of ridicule. I missed books for children in which there were girls like me with problems similar to mine.\u201d\u00a0 Her first children\u2019s book &#8216;Sombo, das M\u00e4dchen vom Fluss&#8217; (Engl: Sombo, The Girl from the River) was published in 1990.\u00a0 With great empathy it tells the story of a girl growing up in Zambia.\u00a0 The author describes farming, fishing and hunting of the Luvale people in a stirring and colourful manner.\u00a0 She tells of Sombo\u2019s initiation in the Mukanda, the girls\u2019 bush school, where she is prepared for her life as a woman, as well as of her dream of achieving more than the village women. The book about Sombo is frequently used in classes and was awarded the Children\u2019s Literature Award of the Berlin Senate\u2019s Commissioner for Foreigners, alongside the novel &#8216;Wie der Fluss in meinem Dorf&#8217; (1994, Engl: Like the River in my Village). Nasrin Siege\u2019s books very often reflect her own life, as in her novel &#8216;Shirin&#8217; (1996). Eleven year old Shirin moves from Iran to Germany with her parents in 1960.\u00a0 While her difficulties finding friends become more and more irrelevant, she at the same time becomes estranged from her parents.<\/p>\n<p>Nasrin Siege\u2019s role as a mediator between cultures is evident in her fairy tales.\u00a0 In &#8216;Kalulu und andere afrikanische M\u00e4rchen&#8217; (1993, Engl: Kalulu and Other African Fairy Tales) she follows the track of the rabbit Kalulu.\u00a0 The tales tell of fighting and submission, love and hatred; they surprise by sudden turns, African wisdom and European influences. Siege\u2019s latest young people\u2019s book &#8216;Hy\u00e4nen im hohen Gras. Spuren in der Serengeti&#8217; (Engl: Hyaenas in the Grass. Tracks in the Serengeti) appeared this August.\u00a0 Since 2005, she has lived in Madagascar. 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