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Ilija Trojanow
was born in Bulgaria in 1965. After fleeing his homeland via Yugoslavia and Italy, he was granted political asylum in Germany. He spent ten years in Kenya and five years in Mumbai, before moving to Kapstadt in 2003. As a writer he sees himself as a traveller between worlds, journeying on a quest that leads him through different cultures and religions. Previous works include: An den inneren Ufern Indiens (Carl Hanser, 2003) - Along the Ganges (Haus Publishing, UK, 2005); Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam (Malik, 2004) - Mumbai to Mecca: A Pilgrimage to the Holy Sites of Islam, (Haus Publishing, UK, 2006)
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was established by Carl Hanser in 1928 in Munich. Its founder's interests in both literature and science have been maintained to the present day. The firm publishes fiction and non-fiction for both adults and children. Its authors include Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Jostein Gaarder, Lars Gustafsson, Milan Kundera, Harry Mulisch, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Botho Strauß, Raoul Chrott, Rafik Schami, Alfred Brendel, Elke Heidenreich and ten Nobel prize-winners, among them Elias Canetti, whose works have been translated into more than twenty different languages. |