Nasrin Siege takes us on a journey from her childhood in Iran to her youth in 1960s Germany and her adult life in Africa. She tells of exclusion and friendship, of encounters with traditional healers, street children, and the Maasai, as well as with Jane Goodall and Henning Mankell. With her “wanderings” to other countries, her publications, and her aid and education projects for children and women, she builds bridges between cultures—and finds a home that lives in people and stories.
Nasrin Siege, born in Tehran, Iran, in 1950, studied psychology and education in Kiel. After completing her studies, she worked in a psychotherapy clinic in Stuttgart and in an addiction clinic near Frankfurt. From 1983 to 2016, she lived in Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar, and Ethiopia. In Tanzania, she wrote stories and poems, and in Zambia, she wrote her first children’s book, which was followed by further children’s and young adult books. In 1996, she founded the association “Hilfe für Afrika e.V.” (Help for Africa), which continues to support aid projects in Africa to this day. She received the Children’s Book Prize of the City of Berlin (1993) and the Two Wings Award (2006) for her social commitment and her services to collecting African fairy tales. In 2022, Nasrin Siege was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her voluntary work in Africa.
“The account of a life spent on equal terms with people of different appearances, origins, beliefs, customs, and traditions, accepting not only the equality of all, but also that of their desires, longings, love, worries, and suffering.”
Ruth Weiss (✝), writer, business journalist, and honorary president of the PEN Center for German-speaking Authors Abroad.
“An autobiography that is both a description of the present and a call to action for the future.”
Barbara Bingel, Chairwoman of the Horst Bingel Foundation for Literatur
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