Meral Kureyshi

Meral Kureyshi (born 26 March 1983 in Prizren) is a Swiss writer.

 Life 
Meral Kureyshi was born in Prizren, Yugoslavia in 1983. Her family came from the Turkish-speaking minority in Kosovo. She has lived in Bern since 1992. She studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel.

In 2015, her first novel, Elephants in the Garden, was published. She was shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize. She won the 2016 Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern. She read at the 2020 Bachmann Prize, at the invitation of Martin Wiederstein.

 Works 

 Elefanten im Garten. Roman. Limmat Verlag, Zürich 2015,  ISBN 978-3-85791-784-4 
 Fünf Jahreszeiten Limmat Verlag, 2019. ISBN 9783857918575 

 References 

Category:1983 births
Category:Living people
Category:Writers from Bern
Category:Kosovan people