Fatma Aydemir

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]

Fatma Aydemir

Biography

Aydemir was born in Karlsruhe, West Germany. She is the granddaughter of Turkish immigrants.[5][6]

She is an editor and columnist for die Tageszeitung. Before it ceased publication, she wrote for the German music magazine Spex.[7][8][9] She also founded a bilingual (German and Turkish) portal in response to incursions against press freedom in Turkey.[10]

Works

Ellbogen (2017)

References
  1. "Fatma Aydemir".
  2. "Debütroman ausgezeichnet: Fatma Aydemir erhält Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis". Spiegel Online. 20 September 2017.
  3. Lenz, Susanne (31 March 2017). "Roman "Ellbogen": Wut, wie sie einem in der Literatur lange nicht begegnet ist". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  4. Bayer, Felix (29 January 2017). "Debütroman über junge Berliner Türkin: Kartoffeln kommen nur am Rande vor". Spiegel Online.
  5. "This is the way we see migration, racism and feminism - Goethe-Institut".
  6. Liebert, Juliane (6 April 2017). "Fatma Aydemir: "Köln war voll erfunden"". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  7. "Autorin Fatma Aydemir - "Ja, ich bin wütend"". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  8. "Articles by Fatma Aydemir".
  9. "Das Zentrum der Welt liegt am Leopoldplatz".
  10. "Fatma Aydemir — internationales literaturfestival berlin".


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