Selim Özdoğan
Selim Özdoğan (* 1971 in Cologne-Mülheim ) is a German writer of Turkish origin .
Life
Özdoğan grew up bilingual. After graduating from high school (Hölderlin-Gymnasium) he studied ethnology, English and philosophy, but broke off his studies. He has been an author since 1995.
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His first book, the novel It's been so lonely in the saddle since the horse died (1995), is considered a cult book. In 1996 Özdoğan received the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists and in 1999 the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize after further works .
Özdoğan's fourth novel In July (2000) is based on the screenplay for the film of the same name by Fatih Akın . His Anatolia novel, The Blacksmith's Daughter , published in 2005, plays a role in Akın's 2007 film On the Other Side .
His book Between Two Dreams was nominated for the German Science Fiction Prize 2010 as best novel.
Özdoğan was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2016 and was awarded the Hohenems Literature Prize in 2017 for the text history without paper .
His detective novel Who Hears Dreams (2019) was number 6 on the best crime list for September 2019.
Works
Books
- It's been so lonely in the saddle since the horse was dead (Roman, 1995), ISBN 3-7466-2058-9
- Nowhere & Hormones (Novel, 1996), ISBN 3-7466-1969-6
- A good life is the best revenge (Short Stories, 1998), ISBN 3-7466-1479-1
- More (Roman, 1999), ISBN 3-7466-1721-9
- In July (Roman, 2000), ISBN 3-203-75260-3
- A game the gods can afford (Roman, 2002), ISBN 3-7466-1991-2
- Tips from Fate (Short Stories, 2003), ISBN 3-7466-1917-3
- The Blacksmith's Daughter (novel, 2005), ISBN 3-351-03039-8
- Tour diary (2006), ISBN 978-3-936054-05-7
- Between Two Dreams (2009), ISBN 978-3-7857-1624-3
- A Glass of Blood (Short Stories, 2010), ISBN 978-3-941639-03-4
- Heimstrasse 52 (Roman, 2011), ISBN 978-3-351-03337-8
- Headstand in a karma taxi, confessions of a prana junkie (Winterthur 2012)
- If the shoes fit, you forget your feet (column collection, 2012)
- The sound of looks (stories, 2012)
- Double room (novel, 2013)
- What We Heard When We Searched For The Truth (12 colors) (2013) ISBN 978-3-943182-06-4
- Why home, I live for rent. Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2016. ISBN 978-3-7099-7238-0
- Where the lights are still on. Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2017. ISBN 978-3-7099-7299-1
- Who hears the dreams. Detective novel. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2019. ISBN 978-3-96054-202-5
Audio CD
- Dreamland ( 2000 , ISBN 3-89813-122-X )
- Bags & Bubbles ( 2003 , ISBN 3-936140-05-7 )
- Between Two Dreams ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-3-7857-3715-6 )
- Another Desire (2012)
- Hundred listeners (2012)
literature
- Jens-Uwe Sommerschuh: laudation for Selim Özdogan. In: Yearbook , Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, 13.1999,2, pp. 885–889
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Selim Özdoğan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official homepage of the author
- Weekly column by the author at Zuender (ZEIT online magazine)
- Christian Sujata Interview with Selim Özdoğan: I do what I feel like doing
Individual evidence
- ↑ derStandard.at: Hohenems Literature Prize 2017 to Selim Özdogan . Article dated May 17, 2017, accessed May 17, 2017.
- ↑ Crime best list: The ten best new crime novels in September 2019 , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, accessed September 4, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Özdoğan, Selim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Özdogan, Selim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Turkish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne-Mülheim |