What is Meral Kureyshi?
{{Infobox person | name = | image = Meral Kureyshi.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|03|26}} | birth_place = [[Prizren]], [[Kosovo]] | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Meral Kureyshi''' (born 26 March 1983 in [[Prizren]]) is a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] writer. == Life == Meral Kureyshi was born in [[Prizren]], [[Yugoslavia]] in 1983. Her family came from the [[Turks in Kosovo|Turkish-speaking minority in Kosovo]]. She has lived in [[Bern]] since 1992. She studied at the [[Swiss Literature Institute]] in [[Biel]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.no-mans-land.org/meral-kureyshi/|title=Meral Kureyshi {{!}} No Man's Land|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-06-29|archive-date=2020-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629211654/https://www.no-mans-land.org/meral-kureyshi/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aprillen.ch/programm/2019/meral-kureyshi-kaspar-surber|title=Meral Kureyshi im Gespräch mit Kaspar Surber - Aprillen - Das Berner Lesefest|website=www.aprillen.ch|access-date=2020-06-29|archive-date=2020-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701234604/https://www.aprillen.ch/programm/2019/meral-kureyshi-kaspar-surber|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bachmannpreis.orf.at/stories/3047329/|title=TEXT Meral Kureyshi, CH|date=2020-06-20|website=Bachmannpreis|language=de|access-date=2020-06-29}}</ref> == Works == * ''Elefanten im Garten''. Roman. Limmat Verlag, Zürich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85791-784-4 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/pt/de/kul/sup/lit/eig.html|title=Elefanten im