Minu Ghedina

Minu Ghedina

Born in Klagenfurt in 1959, grew up in Innsbruck. Studied German language and literature and acting. After several years working at various theatres and in film, studied sculpture with Alfred Hrdlicka at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Exhibitions at home and abroad. Her play ‘Essiggurken’ received a grant from the City of Berlin. Hilde-Zach-Förderstipendium der Stadt Innsbruck 2020 for the start of her debut novel ‘Die Korrektur des Horizonts’.

Am Rande das Licht

Where did it all begin? The novel, which tells the story of a seeker, revolves around this central question. As a child, David seeks his strength in the forest, as an adolescent in resistance against his father. He wants to become an artist, starts studying sculpture and fails, falls in love and is abandoned. He travels to the other side of the world and finds letters whose secrets become a painful experience that calls everything into question.

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