Dževad Karahasan: 70th Birthday on January 25, 2023

On January 25, 2023, Dževad Karahasan celebrates his 70th birthday.

Karahasan, born in the former Yugoslavia in 1953, is one of the most important European authors of our time. His extensive œuvre comprises novels, essays, stories and plays. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding 2004, the Prix européen de l’essai Charles Veillon Lausanne 1994 and the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main 2020.

Suhrkamp most recently published Dževad Karahasan‘s novel Uvod u lebdenje (translated German title: Einübung ins Schweben), a story of love in friendship in besieged Sarajevo.

We congratulate our author on this joyous occasion.
 

»Readers let Dževad Karahasan take them by the hand with great pleasure. The Bosnian novelist and essayist, who grew up with the Quran, well-versed in Goethe and Georg Büchner, appears as a welcome pilot amidst the perils of West-East misunderstandings.«
Ilma Rakusa, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»His books are absolutely contemporary and cunningly ageless at the same time.«
Deutschlandradio Kultur

»Dževad Karahasan ... is the most important chronicler of this siege, in which around 14,000 people died, and one of the most important writers of the former Yugoslavia.«
SR2