Fatma Aydemir is a writer and journalist based in Berlin. Her debut novel Ellbogen came out in 2017, its film adaptation premiered at Berlinale Film Festival in 2023. Her second novel Djinns won several literary awards and was translated into English in 2024. Together with author Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, she published the essay collection Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare. Aydemir is a Guardian columnist and co-founder and editor of the German literary magazine Delfi. In 2023 she rewrote Goethe‘s classic theatre play Faust from a feminist perspective for several stage productions.

Fatma Ayedmir’s appearance is supported by the Goethe-Institut Toronto.

Credit Bahar Kaygusuz