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Melinda Nadj Abonji-Fly Away Pigeon

Boundless Language: Melinda Nadj Abonji’s Fly Away, Pigeon, Translated by Tess Lewis

Reviewed by Rachel Harland In an interview given shortly after receiving the 2010 German Book Prize* for her semi-autobiographical novel Fly Away, Pigeon, Serbian-born Swiss author Melinda Nadj Abonji was asked whether it annoyed her that in the run-up to the award announcement commentators had labeled her book “immigrant literature.” Her response? “It doesn’t annoy […]