Fatma Aydemir is a writer, columnist and editor at the "taz" newspaper. She studied German and American Studies in Frankfurt am Main. Her debut novel "Ellbogen" was published in 2017, for which she received the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize and the Franz Hessel Prize. Together with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, she edited the anthology "Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum". Her second novel "Dschinns" was awarded the Robert Gernhardt Prize and was shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2022.