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Özlem Özgül Dündar (born 1983 in
Solingen Solingen (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr. After Wuppertal, it is the second-largest city in the Bergisches Land, and a member of ...
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) is a German poet, essayist, translator, and novelist.


Personal life

Dündar was born in Solingen, Germany. She attended the University of Wuppertal and studied philosophy and literature there. After traveling to Ireland, where she completed a semester abroad, Turkey, and Paris, she worked with several artists collectives, among other Kanack Attak Leipzig, Kaltsignal, GID, and the Ministry for Compassion. She moved to
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in 2015 to attend the German Institute for Literature, where she experienced a lot of racially motivated attacks on refugee homes, which ultimately inspired her to write her debut screenplay.


Career

Dündar writes poetry, prose, essays, and translates from Turkish. Her screenplay and audio drama Turks, Fire, tells the story of the 1993 Solingen arson attack on a Turkish home in which five people were killed. She originally wrote it as a project for her third year in university. Dündar was ten when the attack took place and originally set out to write a screenplay because she wanted the characters to be physically present. The screenplay was adapted into a novel published in 2021. Her poetry collection gedanken, zerren was published by ELIF Verlag in 2018 and she co-published the anthology Flexen – Flâneusen * schreiben Städte, published by Verbrecher Verlag in 2019.


Stipends, awards, and prizes

* 2010: Düsseldorf Förderpreis * 2011: Merck Stipend in
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* 2014: Goethe Institute Turkish German translation project stipend in
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* 2015: Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize * 2015: Retzhof Drama Prize * 2017: Work stipend of
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* 2018: Kelag-Preis Award at the Ingeborg-Bachmann contest in Klagenfurt for an excerpt of Turks, Fire * 2018: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann stipend from the city of
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* 2019: Alfred-Müller-Felsenburg Prize * 2020: Audio drama of the year honor for the audia drama adaptation of Turks, Fire * 2021: Casa Baldi stipend


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dundar, Ozlem Ozgul 1983 births Living people 21st-century novelists German women novelists Turkish poets 21st-century Turkish poets 21st-century German poets Writers from North Rhine-Westphalia