Tijan Sila / Ismet Prcić
»Der Tag, an dem meine Mutter verrückt wurde« / »Scherben« & »Unspeakable Home«
Past dates
3/29/25
7:00 PM
Author Tijan Sila was born in Sarajevo in 1981 and emigrated to Germany with his family in 1994. In 2024, he won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt for his text “Der Tag, an dem meine Mutter verrückt wurde”. In the KRASS literature programme, he will read from it and talk about his exile, writing and coping with trauma.
Ismet Prcić fled to the USA as a teenager to escape the Bosnian war. In his first award-winning novel “Shards”, he dealt with the traumatic escape and his arrival in America. His new novel “Unspeakable Home” is a linguistically adventurous and emotionally courageous odyssey that takes us through Ismet Prcic's memories and confessions as he reflects on his bomb-ravaged childhood, the implosion of his relationships and an agonizing battle with alcoholism.
