Saša Stanišić

Saša Stanišić is a Bosnian-German writer. He was born in Višegrad (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 1978. In the spring of 1992, he fled alongside his family to Germany as a refugee of the Bosnian War, because his mother is Muslim and his father a Christian. In 2019 Stanišic won the Deutscher Buchpreis with his novel Herkunft. The book was published in Dutch (Herkomst) in October 2020 by the publishing house Ambo|Anthos. Ambo|Anthos also published the Dutch editions of Stanišic’s earlier novels: Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert (Hoe de soldaat de grammofoon repareert, 2007) and Vor dem Fest (Nacht voor het feest, 2014). NRC Handelsblad wrote about Vor dem Fest: ‘A sizzling and funny Heimat novel from one of the biggest talents in contemporary German literature.’