Sa\u0161a Stani\u0161i\u0107 was born in 1978 in Vi\u0161egrad, a small Bosnian town in what was then Yugoslavia. During the Bosnian war, his family fled to Germany in 1992. Stani\u0161i\u0107 attended school in Heidelberg and studied German as a foreign language and Slavic studies there. His master\u2019s thesis on Wolf Haas was awarded the J\u00fcrgen Fritzenschaft Prize by the University of Heidelberg in 2004. During his studies he also wrote literary texts, and after completing his master\u2019s degree, he enrolled at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. In 2005, he entered the Ingeborg Bachmann competition with his story \u00bbWas wir im Keller spielen \u2026\u00ab [tr: What We Play in the Basement \u2026], a retrospective of the war in Yugoslavia from the perspective of a child. Stani\u0161i\u0107 received the Kelag-Publikumspreis for the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He published his debut novel, which has since been translated into thirty languages, in 2006. \u00bbHow the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone\u00ab [Eng. 2008] is about an unusual childhood set against the backdrop of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the war in Bosnia, and a resulting flight to Germany. In contrast to the horrific events recounted here, the linguistic style of the work, which is mainly due to the childlike, youthful narrative perspective, is rather cheerful, anecdotal, and naive. The novel made it onto the shortlist of the German Book Prize and was awarded the F\u00f6rderpreis zum Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen in 2007. A radio play version nominated for the German Audiobook Prize was produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk in 2007, and the dramatized version premiered in 2008 at Schauspielhaus Graz, where Stani\u0161i\u0107 was the city\u2019s writer in residence in 2006\/07. His novel \u00bbVor dem Fest\u00ab [2014; Eng. \u00bbBefore the Feast\u00ab, 2015], a humorous portrayal of life in a village in the Uckermark, received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2014. \u00bbWhat Stanisic succeeds in doing with his brilliantly written rural play, which passes equally as well as an ironically reduced local history and literary tragicomedy, is to put the clich\u00e9 to use without drawing too heavily on stereotypes\u00ab [SPIEGEL]. Stani\u0161i\u0107 received the German Book Prize for his autobiographically tinged novel \u00bbHerkunft\u00ab [2019; Eng. \u00bbWhere You Come From\u00ab, 2021]. Here, as in a memoir, the author reflects not only on his own history, but also on the general question of what origin means and what problems migrants are confronted with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stani\u0161i\u0107 has been honored with numerous other prizes, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Alfred D\u00f6blin Prize, and the Hohenems Literature Prize. In addition to novels, he writes short stories and children\u2019s books. Stani\u0161ic is a member of the Freie Akademie der K\u00fcnste in Hamburg, where he also lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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