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Yildiz Çakar

Author

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Born: 20.11.
Birthplace: Diyarbakir
Lives in: Berlin, Mitte

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Vita

Yildiz Çakar, born in1978, is a poet, writer, playwright. She is also a founding member and was one of co-chair of the Kurdish Writers' Association. She worked as correspondent and editor for Kurdish newspapers. She writes in Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish. Her poems mainly explore feelings of death, exile and nothingness. She has 3 published novels and the common thing in all her novels is that the main characters are women and she fictionalizes a Kurdish tale and the main subject in parallel. Her first novel, Guernica Whirlpool, focuses on the story of a family which was attacked by Islamist extremes in a Kurdish city of Turkey during 90's. It is about the lives of displaced people in the spiral of violence and their inability to hold on to the places they migrated. Her second novel, This Way Doesn't Lead to Paradies, focuses on the stories of kidnapped women of Ezidi's minority by ISIS in South Kurdistan.Her third novel, Hangar Fünf, is about road stories of refugees from different countries who came accros during crossing borders to Europe and their next experiences.
She is actually writing her 4th novel called "Dreamseller".

Related links:
https://www.gorki.de/de/yildiz-cakar
https://tdz.de/artikel/2210072e-c951-482b-8b76-6dd10692c2a6
https://www.lyrikline.org/de/autoren/yildiz-cakar
https://www.haus-fuer-poesie.org/de/poesiefestival-berlin/kuenstler-datenbank/yildiz-cakar
https://commapress.co.uk/authors/yildiz-cakar

Awards

2023: Working grant from the Berlin Senate for non-German literature
2021: Working grant from Aid A, Hamburg
2020: Language and Literature Prize of the Kurdish Writers' Association and the Mesopotamian Language and Research Association
2020: Working grant from the Berlin Senate for non-German literature
2019-21: International playwrights labor Out of Sight (lcb, Maxim Gorki Theater, New Institute for Dramatic Writing, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Schauspiel Stuttgart)
2019: Residency program Literary Colloquium Berlin
2002: Musa Anter Poetry Award
2001: Tîrêjê Zînê Screenplay Award
2000: Screenplay Award from the Mesopotamia Cultural Center

Work

Publications in german

Dunkles Siegel

Dagyeli Verlag Berlin, 2025
Gedicht

Nicht Erinnern Können

Lithografiewerkstatt Münchner Künstlerhaus, 2025
Theaterstück

Publications in original language

Bazirganê Xeyalan

Weşanên Lîsê, Amed, 2025 Roman

The Age of Iron Locusts (en), Dema Kulîyên Hesin (Kurdisch)

Comma Press, London, 2023 Geschichte -Anthologie

Hangar Fünf Derîyê Winda

Weşanên Lîsê, Amed , 2022 Roman

Lost Eye-(en), Çavê Winda (Kurdisch)

London, 2021 Royal Shakespeare Company, Monolog-Theaterstück

Diser Weg führt nicht ins Paradies , Ev Rê Naçe Bihuştê (Kurdisch)

Weşanên Lîsê, Amed , 2019 Roman

The Mirage (Leylanok-Kurdisch)

Avesta Publishing, Istanbul, 2014 Geschichte

The Door (Derî-kurdisch)

Avesta Publishing, Istanbul, 2012 Gedicht

The Graveyard of Stars (Goristana Stêrkan -Kurdisch)

Elma Publishing, Istanbul, 2004 Gedicht

Die Grablosen-(de), (Yên Bêgor - Kurdish)

Litteraturhuset-Oslo, Literarische Colloquium Berlin, Wêjegeh Amed-Diyarbakır, Paul Celan Literature Center (Meridian Czernowitz). Anthologie aus dem Kurdischen in 4 verschiedene Sprachen übersetzt (Deutsche, Norwegische, Ukrainische, Türkische) , 2023 Geschichte -Anthologie

The Dark Seal (en.de.), Mohra Reş (Kurdisch)

Weşanên Lîsê, Amed, Theater EastNBull-London , 2023 Gedicht

Totenbrunnen-(de), Fountain of the Dead-(en), Bîra Miriyan-(Kurdisch)

Berlin, 2022 Maxim Gorki Theater, Theaterstück

The Dark Seal-(en), Mohra Reş (Kudisch)

London, 2021 Theater EastNBull, Gedicht- Monolog

Der Wirbel von Guernica, Gerîneka Guernicayê (Kurdisch)

Weşanên Lîsê, Amed , 2016 Roman

Amed, encyclopedia of the city, its history and geography (Kurdisch-Türkisch)

Published by the Diyarbakir (Amed) metropolitan municipality Diyarbakır, 2012 Enzyklopädie

The Flag (Ala -Kurdisch)

Duhok Writers' Association (Duhok-Kurdistan), 2006 Geschichte
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