Kemal Kurt
Schriftsteller und Fotograf 1947 - 2002

short biography

Foto, privat

Born in 1947 in Çorlu, Turkey, studied in Turkey and in the US he has lived since 1975 in Berlin where he attained his Ph.D. at the Tech. University.He has written short stories, novels, poetry, essays, features, children's books, radio plays, TV-filmscripts for children and published photography. In 1999 he had a fellowship at the Villa Aurora (exile home of Lion Feuchtwanger) in Pacific Palisades, CA, in 2000 at the international writers' retreats Hawthornden Castle at Edinburgh and Waves of Three Seas at Rhodes, 2001 at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA. In 1991 and 2000 he had grants from the foundation Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung Berlin for children's fiction. "When the Meddah Comes" was listed among the three best German children's books in the spring of 1996 by WDR, Radio Bremen and Saarländischer Rundfunk and "The five Fingers and the Moon" was chosen the Best Picture Book of the month December 1997 by the German Academy for Children's Books.

Short biography in TÜRKÇE or DEUTSCH.

Portrait

Juggling Burdens of Representation

Tom Cheesman, "German Life and Letters" (GB), 2006