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
Aydemir in 2017
Born	1986 (age 38–39) Karlsruhe, West Germany
Occupation	Writer journalist
Language	German
Notable awards	Franz-Hessel-Preis 2018 Ellbogen

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.