Fatma Aydemir

Fatma Aydemir is an author, playwright and journalist. She is a Europe columnist for the Guardian, co-editor of literary magazine Delfi and was a long-time editor at Berlin-based periodical Die Tageszeitung. Her 2017 debut novel, Elbow, received numerous literary prizes in Germany, and she co-edited the 2019 essay collection Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare, which became an overnight sensation in German-speaking Europe and is now available in English translation. Djinns, her second novel, was a Spiegel bestseller and shortlisted for the German Book Prize. It has been adapted for multiple theatre performances and will soon be adapted for cinema. Aydemir lives and works in Berlin.