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The unusual title ë stands for a letter that plays an important role in the Albanian language, even though it is often not pronounced. As the child of refugees from Kosovo, the narrator is in search of language and voice. She grows up in Germany, attends kindergarten, school, and university, seeking understanding but repeatedly encountering attributions, ignorance, and indifference. When the Kosovo War rages in the late 1990s, she experiences it from a safe distance. However, even in the diaspora, war and death are present – they are just experienced differently than on-site. The novel ë tells of the Kosovo War, which is little known in Germany, and reminds us of the suffering of families who have lost their homeland, whose murdered relatives were buried anonymously and remain missing or unidentified to this day. A past that cannot fade because it is literally embedded in every fiber of the body is brought to language by Jehona Kicaj in the truest sense of the word. Jehona Kicaj's novel was shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2025 and is nominated for the Debut Prize of the Buddenbrookhaus 2024/2025. For ë, Jehona Kicaj was awarded the HANNA Literature Prize by the state capital of Hanover in 2025. The event will be moderated by Dr. Anton Knittel, director of the literature house. Jehona Kicaj, born in 1991 in Kosovo and raised in Göttingen, studied philosophy, German studies, and modern German literature at the University of Hanover. Following academic publications, she has also been publishing literary texts since 2020. She is a co-editor of the anthology "And so one remained forever." Guest workers and their children (2023). The novel ë is her debut.