Seer Çakır
Seher Çakır (* 1971 in Istanbul , Turkey ) is a poet and narrator of Turkish origin who lives in Austria and works in German .
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Çakır, who has lived in Vienna since 1983 , published her first lyric texts in the bilingual (German / Turkish) magazine Öneri . In the anthologies Die Fremde in mir (1999) and Your language is not my language (2002), short stories by the author appeared.
The National Library of German-Language Poetry in Munich included Çakır in its publication Selected Works VI (2003).
2005 winner of the literary competition “Writing Between Cultures”. Publication of the short story in the anthology “Wortstürmer”, Verlag Exil, Vienna
2007/2008 scholarship from Wiener Wortstätten, play: Sevim and Savaş
In 2008/2009 she received the Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
Bibliography (selection)
- Wednesday poems: Turkish-German / Seher Çakır. To Turk. transfer by the author (2004)
- Your language is not my language: texts by migrant women in Austria; with contributions by Rubia Salgado, Ishraga Mustafa Hamid, Anna Kowalska, Seher Çakir and many more (2002)
- The stranger in me: poetry and prose of the Austrian ethnic groups and immigrants; a reading book / ed. by Helmuth A. Niederle (1999)
- Lemon cake for the 56th woman: short story volume, German / Seher Çakır, Edition Exil, Vienna (2009)
- Ich bin das Festland, German, Seher Çakır, Edition Exil, Vienna (2012)
See also
literature
- Stefanie Grubich: I sat between the chairs for a long time. A post-colonial literature analysis with an intersectional approach based on the works of Seher Çakır . Thesis. Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, 2013 ( PDF file; 802 kB ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Seher Çakır in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Çakır, seer |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Turkish poet and storyteller |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul , Turkey |