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Saša Stanišiç

Portrait of author Saša Stanišić

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Saša Stanišiç

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Saša Stanišić is the author of six books, including Where You Come From (Tin House), which won the 2019 German Book Prize. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.

Articles by Saša Stanišiç

Little Check Marks on Our Names

By Saša Stanišiç

Winner of the German Book Prize, Saša Stanišić's Where You Come From will be out from Tin House next week. Translated by Damion Searls, this autofictional work explores…

Translated by Damion Searls

Three Myths of Immigrant Writing: A View from Germany

By Saša Stanišiç

Migrant, immigrant, intercultural or multicultural literature today (in Germany and elsewhere) is considered a category of literature by authors who write from a perspective refracted by at least two…

Translated from German by Saša Stanišiç

from “How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone”

By Saša Stanišiç

The promise a dam must keep, what the most beautiful language in the world sounds like, and how often a heart must beat to beat shameFrancesco rented a room from old Mirela and moved in opposite, and…

Translated from German by Anthea Bell

A Classical Education

By Saša Stanišiç

And Mister Mozart didn't fasten his seatbelt either, the little monster tattled.

Translated from German by Saša Stanišiç & Janet Hendrickson