Fatma Aydemir

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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]

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Fatma Aydemir
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Aydemir in 2017
Born1986 (age 3839)
Karlsruhe, West Germany
Occupation
  • Writer
  • journalist
LanguageGerman
Notable awardsFranz-Hessel-Preis
2018 Ellbogen
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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/Turkish portal in response to incursions against press freedom in Turkey.[11]

Works

  • Aydemir, Fatma (2017). Ellbogen: Roman (in German). München: Hanser. ISBN 978-3-446-25441-1. OCLC 964395472.
  • Aydemir, Fatma (2022). Dschinns: Roman (in German). München: Hanser. ISBN 978-3-446-26914-9. OCLC 1282190927.

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