Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Summary 'Already an international sensation: a debut novel that tells a love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat. ^ '39 novels in translation on the 2019 longlist'.^ 'The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced'.^ 'Finlandia fiction prize goes to Pajtim Statovci'.'A Life Altered by War and Transmuted Into Fiction'. 'Pajtim Statovci: 'I'm drawn to fiction that makes the unimaginable possible' '.

'Crossing by Pajtim Statovci review – duplicity, double identity and horror'. ^ a b 'Pajtim Statovci - Salomonsson Agency'.^ 'Teatteriarvostelu: Pajtim Statovcin palkittuun romaaniin pohjaava näytelmä Kissani Jugoslavia on luonteva ja pakoton kaikessa runsaudessaan'.'An Uncanny Cat, a Companionable Snake and Displaced Desire'.

^ 'Pajtim Statovcin romaani voitti HS:n kirjallisuuspalkinnon'.Awards Ģ019: Finlandia Award winner for his third novel, Bolla Ģ019: Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature for Crossing (translated by David Hackston) Ģ019: Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award Ģ018: Helsinki Writer of the Year Award Ģ017: Shortlisted for the Future of Finnish Culture AwardĢ015: Shortlisted for the Flame Bearer PrizeĢ014: Shortlisted for the Young Aleksis Literature PrizeĢ014: Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize (Best Debut) He studied comparative literature at the University of Helsinki and screenwriting at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. In 1992, after the outbreak of war in Yugoslavia, of which Kosovo was a part and where Albanians were persecuted, his family fled to Finland. Statovci was born in Kosovo in 1990 to Albanian parents. His second novel, Tiranan sydän, won the Toisinkoinen Literature Prize for 2016, and was published as Crossing in the UK and the US in 2019.

It was made into a play and staged at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki in 2018. His debut novel, Kissani Jugoslavia, was published in 2014, winning the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize for best debut novel in Finnish for that year, and was published in 2017 as My Cat Yugoslavia in the UK and US. Pajtim Statovci (born 1990) is a Finnish novelist.

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