Sema Kaygusuz
Sema Kaygusuz (born August 19, 1972 in Samsun ) is a Turkish writer.
Life
Sema Kaygusuz is the daughter of a military man and grew up in different regions of Turkey. From 1990 to 1994 she studied communication science at Gazi Üniversitesi in Ankara . She played theater there and worked for the radio. She then moved to Istanbul , where she still lives today and teaches creative writing, among other things.
Her first book was published in 1997, followed by several volumes of stories: Sandik Lekesi ("Hope Breast Fleck", 2000), Doyma Noktasi ("Saturation Point", 2002) and Esir Sözler Kuyusu ("Fountain Enslaved Words", 2004). In 2006 her first novel Yere Düşen Dualar was published . She wrote the screenplay for the family drama Pandora'nın Kutusu (“Pandora's Box”) for the director Yeşim Ustaoğlu . The film was awarded the “Golden Shell” at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2008 and made it onto the shortlist for the European Film Awards .
In 2007 Kaygusuz published a study on ethnic and religious diversity in Turkey. In 2008 she was a city clerk in Berlin for a month with a scholarship from the Goethe Institute and in 2010 she was a guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist program. Her books have been translated into German, French, Swedish and Norwegian.
Honors
- 2008 city clerk in Berlin
- 2016 Friedrich Rückert Prize of the City of Coburg
Works (selection)
- Ortadan Yarısından . Stories. 1997
- Sandık Lekesi stories. 2000
- Doyma Noktası stories. 2002
- Esir Sözler Kuyusu stories. 2004
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Yere Düşen Dualar . Novel. 2006 ("Prayers That Fall To Earth")
- Wine and gold . From the Turk. by Barbara Yurtdaş and Hüseyin Yurtdas. Frankfurt, M.: Suhrkamp, 2008, ISBN 978-3-51841-996-0
- Yüzünde Bir Yer . Novel. 2009
- The beggar and God , in: Arjun Appadurai , Susanne Stemmler [Hrsg.]: Multiculture 2.0: welcome to Germany as a country of immigration . Göttingen: Wallstein 2011, ISBN 978-3-83530-840-4
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Karaduygun stories. 2012
- Black bile . Stories. From the Turk. by Sabine Adatepe. With a post from Katja Lange-Müller . Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-049-1
- Sultan ve Şair . 2013
Essays (selection)
- Language of figs , in: Lettre International Edition 110, Fall 2015, pp. 28–29
- Der Wahn des Drachen , translation by Sabine Adatepe, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 22, 2017, p. 18
literature
- Uwe Stolzmann: Stories by Sema Kaygusuz. Schlaflos in Istanbul , in: NZZ , April 24, 2014, p. 23
Web links
- Literature by and about Sema Kaygusuz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Sema Kaygusuz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Sema Kaygusuz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Sema Kaygusuz at perlentaucher.de
- Sema Kaygusuz , at Suhrkamp
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Sema Kaygusuz , at Berliner Künstlerprogramm (2010)
- ↑ Information on the author on edinburghwritersconference.org , accessed on October 22, 2014
- ↑ Turkish author Sema Kaygusuz receives Coburg Rückert Prize 2016 , coburg.de, accessed on February 7, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaygusuz, Sema |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th August 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Samsun |