Şükran Yiğit
Biography
Şükran Yiğit, born in Istanbul in 1961, grew up in Ankara. She studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Ankara. From 1985 to 1994 she worked as a software developer in Istanbul. She has lived in Germany since 1995 and works in Frankfurt am Main. Several of her novels have already been published in Turkey, e.g Catikati Asiklari (The Lovers of the Attic), awarded the 2010 Saint Joseph Student Prize and nominated for the 2011 Notre-Dame de Sion Literature Prize.
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Ankara my love
"Ankara my love – with this title one inevitably thinks of a rapturous declaration of love for the Turkish capital, which will never step out of the shadow of Istanbul. And basically that also applies to the first half of Şükran Yiğit's novel, which originally appeared in Istanbul in 2003 and is now available in German for the first time: to the untouched childish world of six-year-old Suna, who grew up in a sheltered environment at the end of the 1960s. Perhaps too sheltered by her constantly worrying mother, who is always afraid that something might happen to her daughter or that she might get sick again.”
(LiteraturNews Contribution by Gerrit Wustmann)
Translated from Turkish by Stefan Achenbach
