Deniz Selek
Deniz Selek (* 1967 in Hanover ) is a German-Turkish writer.
Life
Selek spent the first three years of her life in Istanbul. She studied German language and literature, pedagogy and interior design and worked as an artist, shoe seller, flight attendant, counter woman, copywriter, editor and illustrator before her first publication. Selek lives with her family in Berlin.
Activity as an author
Her first publication Zimtküsse (2012, S.Fischer Verlag) was recommended on the “ Radio Bremen children's and youth book list autumn 2012”, Kika and the ZDF morning magazine referred to the novel as a “book tip”. Cinnamon kisses came in second place in the Franco-German youth book award in 2013. The trade magazine Bücher reviewed the work. At the LovelyBooks Readers Award , Cinnamon Kisses took 32nd place in the children's and youth book category. In 2013 Selek read from her book at Lit.Cologne .
From 2014 onwards, "Kismet", a new three-volume series of young people's books, was also published by S.Fischer Verlag, about the German-Turkish woman Jannah and her chaotic German-Turkish-African blended family. Jannah falls in love with her stepbrother.
In 2015, the author's fifth book for young people, "Aprikotensommer", was published by S.Fischer Verlag, in which the heroine Eve goes in search of her unknown Turkish father.
In 2016, Selek's first adult novel * Die Frauen vom Meer was published by Droemer-Knaur Verlag Munich. The multi-generational novel about the fate of three women begins in Romania in 1920, continues into the new Turkish republic, illuminates post-war childhood and youth in Germany and extends to the present day. * The Women of the Sea is based on real events. The novel was proposed for the Evangelical Book Prize and the Delia Book Prize in 2017.
* Die Farben im Spiegel , also published by Droemer-Knaur Verlag in Munich in 2017, was the author's seventh work and second novel for adults. In it Selek describes the lifelong love of two people whose mothers are German and whose fathers are Turkish.
Works
- Cinnamon kisses . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-85460-8 .
- Kismet - olives under a full moon . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-810727 .
- Kismet - Köfte in flip flops . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-596-81168-7 .
- Apricot summer . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7335-0066-5 .
- Kismet - couscous with palpitations . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-596-811694 .
- The women from the sea . Droemer-Knaur Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-306154 .
- The colors in the mirror . Droemer-Knaur Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-305751 .
Web links
- Personal website
- Literature by and about Deniz Selek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Profile at the RBB
Individual evidence
- ^ Short biography of Deniz Selek at S. Fischer Verlag
- ↑ Reader Award 2012 , lovelybooks.de, accessed on November 19, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Selek, Deniz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Turkish author and illustrator for young people |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |