Aysel Özakın
Aysel Ozakin | |
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| Occupation | Turkish-British writer |
Aysel Ingham (née Özakın, born 1942) is a Turkish-British novelist and playwright. She has written predominantly in English for over 25 years, although she has also published in three other languages (French, Turkish, and German).[1] She also publishes under the names Ada, Anna, or Ana Ingham.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Özakın studied French in Ankara and in Paris, then worked as a lecturer in Istanbul (at Atatürk Egitim Enstitusu, which is now part of Marmara University).[2] Her literary activity was repeatedly praised by literary critics.[1][3][4] One example of her sensitive, accurate observational prose is a 1975 Turkish language novel under the title Gurbet Yavrum, which was translated to German in 1987, under the title The Flying Carpet.[3]
Three months after the 1980 Turkish military coup, Aysel Özakın left Turkey to attend the Berlin Literary Colloquium.[5]
Özakin considers herself a universalist writer, whose subject matter and protagonists are increasingly international.[5] Through her work, she has striven to cast off any stereotypical labels that would typically have been placed on her as a female author who works in a multitude of languages, and with characters set within a variety of cultural backdrops.[6][7][8]
Personal life
[edit]She met her future husband, the English painter and sculptor Bryan Ingham, in Worpswede, Germany. Özakın moved to Cornwall, England in 1988 to escape the limitations of publishing in Germany,[9] and married him in 1989. They lived together there until their separation in 1994, remaining on friendly terms.[10] She has resided in England since then, and writes her works solely in English.[citation needed]
Bibliography
[edit]- 1975 Gurbet Yavrum (Novel); E. Publishers, Istanbul
- German edition 1987: Rowohlt, Reinbek
- Dutch edition 1988: Ambo, Deh Baarn
- 1976 Sessiz Bir Dayanisma (Short Stories); E. Publishers, Istanbul
- 1978 Alninda Mavi Kuslar (Novel); E. Publishers, Istanbul
- 1980 Genç Kız ve Ölüm (Novel); Yazko, Istanbul
- German Edition 1982, Buntbuch Verlag, Hamburg
- Dutch edition 1984; Schaloom, Amsterdam
- English edition 1988 (tr. Celia Kerslake); Women's Press, London[13]
- German edition reprinted 1989 Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main
- 1981 Sessiz Bir Dayanisma (Short Stories); Yazko, Istanbul
- 1981 Soll Ich alt werden, German edition 1983. Buntbuch Verlag, Hamburg
- 1981 Turken in Deutschland 1984. Goldmann, München
- Greek edition 1983. Theoria, Athens
- 1984 Die leidenschaft der anderen (Novella); Buntbuch Verlag, Hamburg
- 1985 Das Lacheln des Benwubsein (Short Stories); Buntbuch Verlag, Hamburg
- Dutch edition 1986; Sjaloom, Amsterdam
- 1986 Du bist willkommen (Poems)
- 1986 Hosgeldin Dagyeli Buntbuch Verlag, Hamburg
- 1987 Zart erhob sich bis sie flog (Poems); Am Galgenberg, Hamburg; Buntbuch Verlag, Hamburg
- 1987 Die Blau Vogel auf dem Stirn; Buntbuch Verlag, Hamburg
- 1988 Mavi Maske. Roman Can, Istanbull
- German edition, 1989. Luchterhand, Frankfurt
- Dutch edition 1989; Ambo Den Baarn Holland.
- 1989 Selo wants to buy a house (Children book); House de Geus. Holland
- 1991 Glaube Liebe Aircondition (Novel); Luchterhand ; Goldmann paperback
- 1993 De taal Van de Bergen (Novel); Ambo Den Baarn Holland
- 1995 Die Zunge der Berge. Luchterhand, Frankfurt
- 1997 Bartelsman (Novel)
- 2000 Three Colours of Love (Three short novels, published under the name Ada Ingham); Waterloo Press, Brighton
- 2004 La Langue des Montagnes; L'Esprit des Peninsules, Paris
- 2007 La Voyage a travers l'oubli (poems published under the name Anna Ingham); La Soicete des Poets Francais
- 2008 4 Plays of Ana Ingham
- 2009 All Dreamers Go to America (Novel, published under the name Ana Ingham); Eloqent books/AEG New York. USA
- 2007 Ladder in the moonlight (Novel); Pen Press, Brighton
- 2009 Urgent Beauty (Novel); Eloquent Books/AEG. New York USA
- 2010 Lazy Friends (Novel); Strategic Book Group. USA
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Arlene A. Teraoka, "Turkish-German literature," in The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature, ed. Friederike Ursula Eigler and Susanne Kord (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997), 529.
- ^ Aysel Özakin at Munzinger.
- ^ a b Ülker Gökberk, "Encounters with the Other in German Cultural Discourse," in Other Germanies: Questioning Identity in Women's Literature and Art edited by Karen Hermine Jankowsky and Carla Love, 28.
- ^ Bob Corbett, "Review of Prizegiving by Aysel Ozakin
- ^ a b Sabine Fisher, "Özakin, Aysel," in Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture, edited by John Sandford (Routledge, 2013).
- ^ Blackshire-Belay, C. (1994). The Germanic Mosaic: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Society. Greenwood Press. p. 249. ISBN 9780313286292. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ Brinker-Gabler, G.; Smith, S. (1997). Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe. University of Minnesota Press. p. 237. ISBN 9780816624614. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ Cheesman, T. (2007). Novels of Turkish German Settlement: Cosmopolite Fictions. Camden House. p. 92. ISBN 9781571133748. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ Horrocks, D.; Kolinsky, E. (1996). Turkish Culture in German Society Today. Berghahn Books. p. 21. ISBN 9781571818997. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ "Obituary: Bryan Ingham". The Independent. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ List at German Amazon.com
- ^ List at British Amazon.com
- ^ Corbett, Bob (2002), "Prizegiving by Aysel Ozakin: Comments", Bob Corbett's Home Page
