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Tijan Sila, a Sarajevo-born author now living in Germany, has won the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, worth €25,000 ($26, 800). Sila beat 13 competitors to win the prestigious literary competition in the Austrian city of Klagenfurt on Sunday. Sila impressed the jury for the German-language literature prize with his text the title of which translates as “The Day My Mother Went Crazy,” in which he writes about intergenerational trauma, family conflicts, and madness. Juror Philipp Tingler spoke about a unique linguistic “mixture of pointedness, tragicomedy and melancholy.” “I still can’t qui…

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