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Aysel Özakın

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Aysel Ozakin
OccupationTurkish-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

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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

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Aysel Özakin at Munzinger.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Bob Corbett, "Review of Prizegiving by Aysel Ozakin
  5. ^ a b Sabine Fisher, "Özakin, Aysel," in Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture, edited by John Sandford (Routledge, 2013).
  6. ^ Blackshire-Belay, C. (1994). The Germanic Mosaic: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Society. Greenwood Press. p. 249. ISBN 9780313286292. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Cheesman, T. (2007). Novels of Turkish German Settlement: Cosmopolite Fictions. Camden House. p. 92. ISBN 9781571133748. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  9. ^ Horrocks, D.; Kolinsky, E. (1996). Turkish Culture in German Society Today. Berghahn Books. p. 21. ISBN 9781571818997. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Obituary: Bryan Ingham". The Independent. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  11. ^ List at German Amazon.com
  12. ^ List at British Amazon.com
  13. ^ Corbett, Bob (2002), "Prizegiving by Aysel Ozakin: Comments", Bob Corbett's Home Page