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Ilija Trojanow was born on 23 August, 1965 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a German novelist, translator and nonfiction writer. Discover Ilija Trojanow's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Occupation Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 23 August 1965
Birthday 23 August
Birthplace Sofia, Bulgaria
Nationality Bulgaria

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1965

Ilija Trojanow (Bulgarian: Илия Троянов, also transliterated as Ilya Troyanov; born 23 August 1965 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher.

Trojanow was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1965.

1971

In 1971 his family fled Bulgaria through Yugoslavia and Italy to Germany, where they received political asylum.

1972

In 1972 the family travelled on to Kenya, where Ilija's father had obtained a job as engineer.

1977

With one interruption from 1977 to 1981, Ilija Trojanow lived in Nairobi until 1984, and attended the German School Nairobi.

1985

After a stay in Paris, he studied law and ethnology at Munich University from 1985 to 1989.

1989

He interrupted these studies to found Kyrill-und-Method-Verlag in 1989, and after that Marino-Verlag in 1992, both of which specialised in African literature.

1990

In the 1990s Trojanow wrote several non-fiction and travel books about Africa, published an anthology of contemporary African literature and translated African authors into German.

1995

Among other awards he received the Bertelsmann Literature Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in Klagenfurt in 1995, the Marburg Literature Prize in 1996, the Thomas Valentin Prize in 1997, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 2000 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category of fiction for his novel "Der Weltensammler".

1996

His first novel, "Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall", appeared in 1996.

In it he recounts his family's experiences as political refugees and asylum seekers.

After that appeared the science fiction novel "Autopol", created on the Internet as a "novel in progress," "Hundezeiten", a travel account of a visit to his Bulgarian homeland, and books dealing with his experiences in India.

His reportage "Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam" describes a pilgrimage to Mecca.

1999

In 1999 Trojanow moved to Mumbai and became intensely involved with Indian life and culture.

He has lived in Cape Town, returned to Germany (Mainz), and then to Austria, where he currently resides in Vienna.

2002

Since 2002 Ilija Trojanow has been member of the PEN centre of the Federal Republic of Germany.

2006

Published in English as The Collector of Worlds in 2006, this novel was inspired by the biography and travel writings of British colonial officer Richard Francis Burton, some of whose travels Trojanow followed to places in present-day India, Saudi Arabia or Tanzania.

2013

In 2013, Trojanow, who has also written on freedom of expression and surveillance of citizens by government agencies in Germany, had criticized the National Security Agency (NSA).

In the same year, he was denied entry into the US for undisclosed reasons.

He planned to attend an academic conference.

Upon intervention by representatives of the P.E.N.

and the German cultural institution Goethe-Institut, he could finally travel to New York at the end of 2013.

2014

In 2014, Trojanow participated in the writer in residence programme of the one world foundation in Sri Lanka.