Aras Ören

Poet and writer (b. 1939, İstanbul). He worked as an actor and dramatist in İstanbul and then went to Germany (1960). He made his living working as an actor and writer in Berlin. His poems were published in the review Yeni Ufuklar in Turkey.

He gained fame in Germany through his translations of poems. In 1980, he collected the Incentive Award of the Germany Industry Association, the honorary award from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bavaria in 1983 and the Albert von Chamisso Award, which is given to people who are not native speakers of German but contribute to German literature in Germany.

WORKS:

POETRY: Terkedilmişlerin Akşamı (The Evening of the Abandoned, 1960), Pek Büyük Gözlerim (My Eyes are Very Big, 1964), Was will Niyazi in der Nauny Strasse (What is Niyazi Doing in Nauny Street? 1973), Der Kurze Traumaus Kâğıthane (The Dream of Kağıthane, 1974), Privatexil (The Miserable Book, 1977), Deutschland ein Türkiches Marchen (A Turkish Fairytale in Germany, 1978), Alte Marchen Neu Erzahlt (Old Tales in the New Language, 1979), Die Fremde is auch ein Haus (The Foreign Land is Also A Home Now, 1980), Berlin Üçlemesi (Berlin Trilogy, 1980), Enkaz, İkinci Elden Resimler (Debris, Second-Hand Pictures, 1984), A'nın Gizli Yaşamı (Secret Life of A, 1990), Hollywood Özlemi (Longing for Hollywood, 1991), Berlin Savignyplatz (Berlin Savignyplatz, 1993).

NARRATIVE: Gündoğduların Yük–selişi (The Rise of the sunflowers, 1985).

SHORT STORY: Kaybolan Şefkat (Lost Compassion, 1987).

NOVEL: Nar Çiçeği (The Pomegranate Blossom, 1988), Beklenmedik Bir Ziyaretçi (An Unexpected Guest, 1995), Kitaptaki Yüz (The Face on the Book, 2001).