Fatma Aydemir
Literature
Fatma Aydemir, born in 1986 in Karlsruhe, is a writer and journalist. She studied German and American Studies in Frankfurt am Main and San Diego. Since 2012, she has lived in Berlin and worked as an editor for taz until 2023. She is a columnist for The Guardian and co-editor of the literary magazine Delfi. Her debut novel Ellbogen (2017) received the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize and the Franz Hessel Prize. Her second novel Dschinns (2022) was awarded the Robert Gernhardt Prize and the LiteraTour Nord Prize, and was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. Together with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, she edited the anthology Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum. In 2023, she wrote the play Doktormutter Faust for Schauspiel Essen.
Selected Publications
2022 | DSCHINNS, novel
2019 | EURE HEIMAT IST UNSER ALBTRAUM, anthology (ed., with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah)
2017 | ELLBOGEN, novel
2023 | DOKTORMUTTER FAUST, play
Selected Awards
2023 | LiteraTour Nord Prize
2022 | Shortlist, German Book Prize for DSCHINNS
2020 | Robert Gernhardt Prize
2017 | Klaus Michael Kühne Prize for ELLBOGEN
2017 | Franz Hessel Prize for ELLBOGEN