Fatma Aydemir Explained

Fatma Aydemir
Birth Place:	Karlsruhe, West Germany
Language:	German
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Fatma Aydemir (born 1986) is a German author and journalist based in Berlin.^[1] She is best known for her novel Ellbogen (Elbow), which won both the 2018 Franz Hessel Prize and the Klaus Michael Kühne prize for best debut novel of 2017.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Biography

Aydemir was born in Karlsruhe, West Germany. She is the granddaughter of Turkish-Kurdish^[5] immigrants.^{[6] [7]}

She is an editor and columnist for Die Tageszeitung. Before it ceased publication, she wrote for the German music magazine Spex.^{[8] [9] [10]} She also founded a bilingual (German and Turkish) portal in response to incursions against press freedom in Turkey.^[11]

Works

• Book: Aydemir, Fatma . Ellbogen : Roman . Hanser. München . 2017 . 978-3-446-25441-1 . 964395472 . de.
• Book: Aydemir, Fatma . Dschinns : Roman . Hanser. München . 2022 . 978-3-446-26914-9 . 1282190927 . de.

External links

• K24 interview
• Words Without Borders Interview

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fatma Aydemir. Writers Unlimited.
2. News: Debütroman ausgezeichnet: Fatma Aydemir erhält Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis . Spiegel Online . 2017-09-20.
3. Web site: Roman "Ellbogen": Wut, wie sie einem in der Literatur lange nicht begegnet ist . Lenz . Susanne . 2017-03-31 . Berliner Zeitung . de . 2019-07-11.
4. News: Debütroman über junge Berliner Türkin: Kartoffeln kommen nur am Rande vor . Spiegel Online . 2017-01-29 . Bayer . Felix.
5. Web site: Radisch . Iris . "Dschinns" von Fatma Aydemir: "Verficktes Land" . zeit.de . . 2022-05-25.
6. Web site: This is the way we see migration, racism and feminism. @GI_weltweit.
7. News: Fatma Aydemir: "Köln war voll erfunden" . Liebert . Juliane . 2017-04-06 . Die Zeit . 2019-07-11 . de . 0044-2070.
8. Web site: Autorin Fatma Aydemir – "Ja, ich bin wütend" . Deutschlandfunk Kultur . de . 2019-07-11.
9. Web site: Articles by Fatma Aydemir.
10. News: Das Zentrum der Welt liegt am Leopoldplatz. Der Tagesspiegel Online .
11. Web site: Fatma Aydemir — internationales literaturfestival berlin.