With one interruption from 1977–1981, Ilija Trojanow lived in Nairobi until 1984, and attended a German-language school.
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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.
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Kulturen bekämpfen sich nicht - sie fließen zusammen, Munich, 2007 (with Ranjit Hoskote)
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Das größte Fest der Welt, München 2008 (photographs by Thomas Dorn)
Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment | Ilija Lončarević | Ilija Garašanin | Ilija, Slovakia |
(Played the piano as an accompanist to the German poet Ilija Trojanow in a poetry recital, Foreign Languages Department) - University of Bahrain.