Fatma Aydemir

Fatma Aydemir was born in Karlsruhe in 1986 and studied German and American Studies in Frankfurt am Main. She worked as an editor at the newspaper taz and as a freelance writer. Her debut novel, *Ellbogen*, was published in 2017 and received the Klaus-Michael-Kühne Prize and the Franz Hessel Prize; it was also adapted for the stage several times. In 2019, Aydemir co-edited the anthology *Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum* with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. Her second novel, *Dschinns* (2022), received the Robert Gernhardt Prize and the LiteraTour Nord Prize and was shortlisted for the German Book Prize.