Djinns

Fatma Aydemir is an author, playwright and journalist. She is a Europe columnist for the Guardian, co-editor of literary magazine

Delfi and was a long-time editor at Berlin-based periodical

Die Tageszeitung. Her 2017 debut novel, Ellbogen (Elbow), received

numerous literary prizes in Germany, and she co-edited the 2019 essay collection Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare, which

became an overnight sensation in German-speaking Europe and is now available in English translation. Dschinns (Djinns), her second novel, was a Spiegel bestseller and shortlisted for the

German Book Prize. It has been adapted for multiple theatre

performances and will soon be adapted for cinema. Aydemir lives

and works in Berlin.