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Ilija Trojanow (Bulgarian: Илия Троянов, also transliterated as Iliya Troyanov; born 23 August 1965 in Sofia), is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher.

Life

Trojanow was born in

Munich University from 1985 to 1989. He interrupted these studies to found Kyrill-und-Method-Verlag in 1989, and after that Marino-Verlag in 1992, both of which specialised in African literature. In 1999 Trojanow moved to Mumbai and became intensely involved with Indian life and culture. He has lived in Cape Town, returned to Germany (Mainz), and then to Austria, where he currently resides in Vienna

.

In the 1990s Trojanow wrote several non-fiction and travel books about Africa, published an anthology of contemporary African literature and translated African authors into German. His first novel, "Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall", appeared in 1996. In it he recounts his family's experiences as political refugees and

asylum seekers

. After that appeared the science fiction novel "Autopol", created on the Internet as a "novel in progress," "Hundezeiten", a travel account of a visit to his Bulgarian homeland, and books dealing with his experiences in India. His reportage "Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam" describes a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Since 2002 Ilija Trojanow has been member of the PEN centre of the Federal Republic of Germany. Among other awards he received the Bertelsmann Literature Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in Klagenfurt in 1995, the Marburg Literature Prize in 1996, the Thomas Valentin Prize in 1997, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 2000 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category of fiction for his novel "Der Weltensammler" (The Collector of Worlds) in 2006.

In 2013 Trojanow had criticized the National Security Agency (NSA).^[1]^[2] In the same year he was denied entry into the USA for undisclosed reasons. He planned to attend a scholar's conference there.^[3]^[4]

Trojanow participated in the writer in residence programme of one world foundation in Sri Lanka in 2014.^[5]

Works

In Afrika, Munich, 1993 (with Michael Martin)
Naturwunder Ostafrika, Munich, 1994 (with Michael Martin)
Hüter der Sonne (Custodians of the Sun), Munich, 1996 (with Chenjerai Hove)
Kenia mit Nordtansania, Munich, 1996
Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall, Munich, 1996
Autopol, Munich, 1997
Zimbabwe, Munich, 1998
Hundezeiten, Munich, 1999
Der Sadhu an der Teufelswand, Munich, 2001
An den inneren Ufern Indiens (Along the Ganges), Munich, 2003
Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam (Mumbai to Mecca), Munich, 2004
Der Weltensammler (The Collector of Worlds), Munich, 2006
Indien. Land des kleinen Glücks, Cadolzburg, 2006
Gebrauchsanweisung für Indien, Munich, 2006
Die fingierte Revolution. Bulgarien, eine exemplarische Geschichte, Munich, 2006
Nomade auf vier Kontinenten, Frankfurt, 2007
Kampfabsage. Kulturen bekämpfen sich nicht – sie fließen zusammen, Munich, 2007 (with Ranjit Hoskote)
Der entfesselte Globus, Munich, 2008
Sehnsucht, Freiburg, 2008 (edited by Fatma Sagir)
Kumbh Mela. Das größte Fest der Welt, München 2008 (photographs by Thomas Dorn)
Angriff auf die Freiheit. Sicherheitswahn, Überwachungsstaat und der Abbau bürgerlicher Rechte, Munich 2009 (with Juli Zeh)
EisTau, Munich, 2011 (novel)
Die Versuchungen der Fremde: Unterwegs in Arabien, Indien und Afrika, Munich, 2011
Der überflüssige Mensch ([1]), Salzburg, 2013
Macht und Widerstand, Frankfurt am Main 2015
Meine Olympiade, Frankfurt am Main, 2016

English translations

Custodians of the Sun
Along the Ganges, translation by Ranjit Hoskote, Penguin Books India & Haus Publishing, 2005
Mumbai to Mecca, London, 2007, Haus Publishing
The Collector of Worlds, London, 2008
The Lamentations of Zeno, translation by Philip Boehm of Eis Tau, Verso Books, New York, 2016

Publishing

Afrikanissimo, Wuppertal, 1991 (with Peter Ripken)
Das Huhn das schreit gehört dem Fremden (The screaming Chicken belongs to the Stranger), Munich, 1998
Döner in Walhalla (Doner in Valhalla), Cologne, 2000
Die Welt des Ryszard Kapuściński. Seine besten Geschichten und Reportagen, Frankfurt, 2007
Egon Erwin Kisch. Die schönsten Geschichten und Reportagen, Berlin, 2008

Translations

Sobornost. Kirche, Bibel, Tradition (Bible, church, tradition) by Georgij V. Florovskij, München 1989
Der Berg am Rande des Himmels (The Mountain on the Edge of the Sky) by Timothy Wangusa, Munich, 1989
Knochen (Bones) by Chenjerai Hove, Munich, 1990
Der Preis der Freiheit (The Price of Freedom) by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1991
Buckingham Palace (Buckingham Palace, district six) by Richard Rive, München 1994
Der letzte Ausweis (Identity card) by F. M. Esfandiary, Frankfurt, 2009

Film adaptations

The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner
, 2007, directed by Stefan Komandarev with Miki Manojlovic as Bai Dan and Carlo Ljubek as Alexander

References

^ "Ilija Trojanow / Juli Zeh: Angriff auf die Freiheit – Gefangen im Datennetz.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 15.09.2009
^ "Ilija Trojanow und Juli Zeh: Offener Brief an Angela Merkel: Deutschland ist ein Überwachungsstaat.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 25 July 2013
^ "NSA-Kritiker Ilija Trojanow: Deutscher Schriftsteller darf nicht in die USA einreisen." Der Spiegel. 1 October 2013.
^ "Einreiseverbot für Ilija Trojanow: Willkür und Freiheit.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 1 October 2013
^ Cf. owf.at: writer in residence Archived 2016-02-15 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Literature by and about Ilija Trojanow (in German) in the catalogue of the DDB, or German National Library
Biography, Lettre Ulysses Award jury member (in English)
The collector of worlds, on Trojanov's novel of the same name, at signandsight.com
Ilija Trojanow on F.M. Esfandiary: Searching for Identity in Iran's Labyrinthine Bureaucracy

[1] "Ilija Trojanow / Juli Zeh: Angriff auf die Freiheit – Gefangen im Datennetz.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 15.09.2009

[2] "Ilija Trojanow und Juli Zeh: Offener Brief an Angela Merkel: Deutschland ist ein Überwachungsstaat.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 25 July 2013

[3] "NSA-Kritiker Ilija Trojanow: Deutscher Schriftsteller darf nicht in die USA einreisen." Der Spiegel. 1 October 2013.

[4] "Einreiseverbot für Ilija Trojanow: Willkür und Freiheit.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 1 October 2013

[5] Cf. owf.at: writer in residence Archived 2016-02-15 at the Wayback Machine

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 In 2013 Trojanow had criticized the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA).<ref>"[http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensionen/sachbuch/ilija-trojanow-juli-zeh-angriff-auf-die-freiheit-gefangen-im-datennetz-1622810.html Ilija Trojanow / Juli Zeh: Angriff auf die Freiheit – Gefangen im Datennetz].''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]''. 15.09.2009</ref><ref>"[http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ueberwachung/offener-brief-an-angela-merkel-deutschland-ist-ein-ueberwachungsstaat-12304732.html Ilija Trojanow und Juli Zeh: Offener Brief an Angela Merkel: Deutschland ist ein Überwachungsstaat].''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]''. 25 July 2013</ref> In the same year he was denied entry into the USA for undisclosed reasons. He planned to attend a scholar's conference there.<ref>"[http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/ilija-trojanow-nach-nsa-protest-einreise-in-die-usa-verweigert-a-925467.html NSA-Kritiker Ilija Trojanow: Deutscher Schriftsteller darf nicht in die USA einreisen]." ''[[Der Spiegel]]''. 1 October 2013.</ref><ref>"[http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/autoren/einreiseverbot-fuer-ilija-trojanow-willkuer-und-freiheit-12599490.html Einreiseverbot für Ilija Trojanow: Willkür und Freiheit].''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]''. 1 October 2013</ref>
-Trojanow participated in the writer in residence programme of [[one world foundation]] in Sri Lanka in 2014.<ref>Cf. [http://www.owf.at/de/residencies/writer-in-residence owf.at: writer in residence]</ref>
+Trojanow participated in the writer in residence programme of [[one world foundation]] in Sri Lanka in 2014.<ref>Cf. [http://www.owf.at/de/residencies/writer-in-residence owf.at: writer in residence] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215131059/http://www.owf.at/de/residencies/writer-in-residence |date=2016-02-15 }}</ref>
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 {{commons|Ilija Trojanow}}
 *[http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=115367055/ Literature by and about Ilija Trojanow] (in German) in the catalogue of the DDB, or [[German National Library]]
-*[http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/jury05/bio_trojanow.html/ Biography, Lettre Ulysses Award jury member] (in English)
+*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050428230020/http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/jury05/bio_trojanow.html Biography, Lettre Ulysses Award jury member] (in English)
 *[http://www.signandsight.com/features/690.html ''The collector of worlds''], on Trojanov's novel of the same name, at signandsight.com
 *[http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-310/_nr-642/i.html Ilija Trojanow on F.M. Esfandiary: Searching for Identity in Iran's Labyrinthine Bureaucracy]

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