Melinda Nadj Abonji
Nadj Abonji at a reading in 2011
Born	22 June 1968 Bečej, Yugoslavia
Occupation	Writer

Melinda Nadj Abonji (born 22 June 1968 in Bečej, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian-Swiss writer, musician, and performance artist. ^[1] Melinda Nadj Abonji was born in the Hungarian part of Vojvodina, in present-day Serbia. She came to Switzerland at the age of 5 to join her refugee parents.

After finishing her studies at the University of Zurich, she wrote a novel, Fly Away, Pigeon, based on her refugee experiences, which in 2010 won the German Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize. ^{[1] [2]}

• Nadj Abonji, Melinda (2010). Tauben fliegen auf Roman (in German). Salzburg: Jung und Jung. ISBN  978-3-902497-78-9. OCLC  699608457.
• —— (2011). Im Schaufenster im Frühling Roman (in German). Salzburg: Jung und Jung. ISBN  978-3-902497-86-4. OCLC  712435209.
• —— (2017). Schildkrötensoldat Roman (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN  978-3-518-42759-0. OCLC  984749412.

• Abonji, Melinda Nadj (2014). Fly Away, Pigeon. Calcutta: Seagull Books. ISBN  978-0-85742-212-5.

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