'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. And this, in turn, enables Bekim finally to open himself to true love-which he will find in the most unexpected place.Pajtim Statovci (born 1990) is a Finnish novelist. It is this witty, charming, manipulative creature who starts Bekim on a journey back to Kosovo to confront his demons and make sense of the magical, cruel, incredible history of his family. Then one night, at a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat, who also moves in with him. Aside from casual hookups, his only companion is a boa constrictor that, improbably (he is terrified of snakes), he lets roam around his apartment.

Shortly thereafter, the country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee to Finland, where her son Bekim grows up to become a social outcast-not just an immigrant in a country suspicious of foreigners but also a gay man in an unaccepting society. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, and what was meant to be a happy match quickly goes wrong. 'A marvel, a remarkable achievement, and a world apart from anything you are likely to read this year.' -Téa Obreht, The New York Times Book Review

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