Zehra Çırak (

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, 1960) is a

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writer. She moved to Germany with her family when she was three years old and she has lived in

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since 1982. She started publishing in the magazine ''Flugfänger''.

Works

*''Flugfänger'', Gedichte, Edition artinform, 1988 *''Vogel auf dem Rücken eines Elefanten'', Gedichte, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 1991 *''Fremde Flügel auf eigener Schulter'', Gedichte, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 1994 *''Leibesübungen'', Gedichte, Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2000 *''In Bewegung'', Gedichte und Prosaminiaturen Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin 2008 *''Der Geruch von Glück'', Erzählungen, Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin 2011

Awards

* Friedrich-Hölderlin-Förderpreis, 1993 *

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize The Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (German ''Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis'') was a German literary award established in 1985, given to a work whose author's mother tongue is not German, as was the case for Adelbert von Chamisso. It was offered by the Ro ...

, 2001

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* 1960 births Living people Turkish writers in German German people of Turkish descent German women writers Turkish women writers {{Germany-writer-stub