Luetfiye Güzel

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Lütfiye Güzel (2013)

Lütfiye Güzel (* 1972 in Duisburg ) is a German author and poet . She writes texts about her everyday life, her family, her dreams, longings and life in the Ruhr area . In 2017 she was awarded the Ruhr Literature Prize.

Life

Lütfiye Güzel was born in the Hamborn district of Duisburg as the daughter of a Turkish family . The father was a steel worker, the mother a housewife. As a guest worker child, she grew up bilingually in the Marxloh district with four sisters. She began studying at the University of Duisburg , which she dropped out after a few semesters. Lütfiye Güzel lives as a freelance writer in Duisburg and Berlin. In addition to her writing activities, she designs literary workshops for young people.

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Lütfiye Güzel came to literature as an autodidact . Life in Marxloh, known as the “problem district”, shaped her writing. Her texts are poems, shorter and longer prose. They deal with everyday experiences, tell of poverty, loneliness, longing and memories. At first, she presented her texts at poetry slams , distributed them as a loose-leaf collection or published them in literary and city magazines.

Her first two books were published in 2012 by the Duisburger Kleinverlag Dialog Edition . They met with interest from the public and critics. The second edition of the first volume of poetry Herz-Terroristin was published in 2013. In a review in the WAZ it was described as a “precious little collection with subtle […] miniatures”. Her second book Let's go Güzel! , which contains short stories as well as poems , the reviewer read as "philosophically soaked [...] forays through a cold world". A year later the book of poems Trist olé ?! Since 2014 she has published notes, novellas , poems and reflections under her own label, Go-Güzel-Publishing.

In 2014 she received the “ Fakir Baykurt Culture Prize” from the city of Duisburg, which was awarded for the first time . The award was named after a Turkish teacher and writer who wrote about the everyday life of guest workers in Germany. He lived in Essen until his death in 1999 . The jury praised the quality of Güzel's texts as well as their commitment to children and young people from immigrant backgrounds.

In his laudation to Lütfiye Güzel for the Ruhr Literature Prize 2017, the Germanist Hannes Krauss wrote: “Non-compliance - with norms, conventions, customs and expectations - that is a central feature of Lütfiye Güzel's texts - and the basis of their literary quality. [...] Güzel's texts have after-effects. They name the misery of everyday life, but do not induce resignation because they pack their hard truths into precise - that is, beautiful - language. "

Awards

Publications (selection)

Web links

Commons : Lütfiye Güzel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Thomas Becker: Small lights in the dark . In: WAZ of April 23, 2012; Retrieved June 1, 2013.
  2. Thomas Becker: Sparkling stars in the sky . In: WAZ of January 24, 2013 (facsimile on helmut-loeven.de); accessed on May 31, 2013.
  3. a b Lütfiye Güzel receives the Ruhr Literature Prize 2017 . Laudation by Hannes Krauss , in: Literaturkritik.de , December 2017
  4. Gerrit Wustmann : Not in the mood for literary agents , portrait Lütfiye Güzel in: der Freitag , issue 34/2017
  5. Underground poet wins the Ruhr Literature Prize 2017 . In: RuhrNachrichten from October 20, 2017; accessed on November 1, 2017.