Meral Kureyshi

Meral Kureyshi, born 1983 in Prizren in the former Yugoslavia, arrived in Bern  in 1992. After completing her studies at the Swiss Institute for Literature in Biel she founded the Poetry Atelier of Bern. Her debut novel, Elefanten im Garten [Elephants in the Garden], was published in 2015 and shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize.