Fatma Aydemir (born 1986) is a German author and journalist based in Berlin. 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.
Biography
Aydemir was born in
Karlsruhe,
West Germany. She is the granddaughter of
Turkish
Turkish may refer to:
*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
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Kurdish immigrants.
She is an editor and columnist for ''
Die Tageszeitung
''Die Tageszeitung'' (, “The Daily Newspaper”), is counted as being one of modern Germany's most important newspapers and amongst the top seven. taz is stylized as ''die tageszeitung'' and commonly referred to as ''taz'', is a cooperative-own ...
''. Before it ceased publication, she wrote for the German music magazine ''
Spex''. She also founded a bilingual (German and Turkish) portal in response to incursions against press freedom in Turkey.
Works
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References
External links
K24 interviewWords Without Borders Interview
1986 births
Living people
21st-century German journalists
21st-century German women writers
German people of Turkish descent
Writers from Karlsruhe
Journalists from Berlin
German newspaper journalists
German women journalists
Die Tageszeitung people
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