Yadé Kara (

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, 1965) is a

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writer. She has worked as an actress, teacher and journalist. Her first novel, ''Selam Berlin'', published in 2003, won the '' Deutschen Bücherpreis'' in 2004 and the '' Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Förderpreis''. Her second novel, ''Café Cyprus,'' was published in 2008.

Life

Kara was born in

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in 1965. Her parents moved to Germany when she was a child, and she grew up in

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. She studied English and

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and also drama at the

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. She has worked as an actress, teacher and journalist in cities like

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Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

and published several articles for radio and television. Her first novel '' Selam Berlin'' (2003) is set in Berlin between the fall of the

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and

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. It was described by the press as "the Turkish answer to the Wende", by Moray McGowan as "exemplif

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Turkish-German writing’s establishment as a marketable commodity’", and by Petra Fachinger as "above all... a self-consciously transnational novel". It won the German Book Prize 2004 and the Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Förderpreis in 2004. The German Book Prize is awarded for the most successful debut novel. The Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Förderpreis is given to a work whose author's mother tongue is not German. Kara's second book was ''Café Cyprus'', published in 2008, and is set in early 1990s London. Kara describes it as a 'coming-of-age' novel Kara's work has enjoyed popular success, and she has been described as "developing a distinctive style that sets her apart from many of her contemporaries, not least in the work’s narration through a male protagonist".

Works

*''Café Cyprus'', Roman, Diogenes, Zürich 2008. 375 S. *''Selam Berlin'', Roman, Diogenes, Zürich 2003. 381 S.

References

External links

*
Interview mit Enno E. Peter vom November 2003
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