Literatur in der Nadelfabrik: Doğan Akhanlı

We are looking forward to a reading with Doğan Akhanlı from his novel "Madonna's Last Dream" in Aachen.

Doğan Akhanlı, born in Turkey in 1957, has written numerous novels and a play. "The Days Without a Father" (German 2016) and "Madonna's Last Dream" (Turkish 2005) were chosen as the most important novel publications in Turkey. In 2013 he received the Pfarrer Georg Fritze Prize in Cologne and in 2018 the European Tolerance Prize in Austria.
In 1991 he had to flee Turkey and came to Germany as a political refugee. He has lived in Cologne since 1992. His core theme is the examination of the genocides of the 20th century. Because of his political stance, he was imprisoned several times in Turkey; Most recently, he was arrested in Spain in 2017 on the basis of a Turkish arrest warrant and wrote the book “Arrest in Granada” about it.