Fatma Aydemir

 ( 1986 Births ) 

Fatma Aydemir (born 1986) is a German author and journalist based in Berlin. 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.

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Biography Aydemir was born in Karlsruhe, West Germany. She is the granddaughter of Turkish people-Kurds Human migration.

She is an editor and columnist for Die Tageszeitung. Before it ceased publication, she wrote for the German music magazine Spex. She also founded a bilingual German/Turkish portal in response to incursions against press freedom in Turkey.

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Works

• Fatma Aydemir (2025). 9783446254411, Hanser. ISBN 9783446254411
• Fatma Aydemir (2025). 9783446269149, Hanser. ISBN 9783446269149

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External links

• K24 interview
• Words Without Borders Interview

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