Aslı Erdoğan

Aslı Erdoğan (born 1967 in Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist and writer.

Life

Erdoğan visited the Robert College in Istanbul Arnavutköy to 1983 and studied information technology and physics at the Boğaziçi Üniversitesi until 1988. For CERN she worked from 1991 to 1993. Later, she worked in Rio de Janeiro, and returned in 1996 in Turkey back to here as freelance writer to work.

Since the beginning, she was active in human rights issues and was at the PEN the committee " writer in prison ." Her column in the newspaper The other radical they summed up in the book Bir Yolculuk Ne Zaman Biter. Her books have been translated into French and English ..

In 1990, she achieved a third place in the Turkish Yunus Nadi Prize, at Deutsche Welle, she won the 1997 ausgelobten for Turkish-speaking Posts Author competition with the short story wooden birds that gave the title for the collection published.

In 2010 she received for her novel Tas Bin the " Sait Faik - Literary Prize ", the most important literary award in Turkey.

From December 2011 to May 2012 Aslı Erdoğan was staying as a " writer in residence " of the Literature House Zurich and the PWG Foundation in Zurich. Since August 2012 she is asylum Writer of the City of Graz.

Works in German translation

• The city with the red cape. Translated from the Turkish by Angelika Gillitz - Acar and Angelika high; Afterword by Karin weld; Union Verlag, Zurich 2008 ISBN 978-3-293-10010-7 ( Kirmizi Pelerinli Kent, Istanbul, 2001)
• The miraculous Mandarin. Translated from the Turkish by Recai Hallaç, Ed. Galata, Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-935597-73-9 ( Mucizevi mandarin )
• Wood birds. Literature competition for the Turkish language in 1997; The award-winning contributions. German wave Prize for Literature in 1997, Önel Verlag, 1998 ISBN 3-933348-01-3