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]
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Born | 1986 (age 35–36) Karlsruhe, West Germany |
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Language | German |
Notable awards | Franz-Hessel-Preis 2018 Ellbogen |
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 and Turkish) portal in response to incursions against press freedom in Turkey.[11]
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