Zafer Şenocak

Poet and writer (b. 1961, Ankara). He has been living in Berlin since 1971. He studied the German language and literature, politics and philosophy. He has published German poems, stories, novels and essays as well as writing articles and commentaries in German newspapers.

His first Turkish work was “Kara Kutu” (The Black Box). He writes symbolic poems and uses contrasts, dilemmas and paradoxes extensively.

WORKS:

POETRY: Elektrisches Blau (Electrical Blue, 1983), Verkauf den Morgenstimmungen am Market (Sales Projections of the Market, 1983), Flammentropfen (Drop of Flame, 1985), Ritual der Jugend (Rites of Youth, 1987), Gençlik Ayinleri (Rites of Youth, 1994), Das Senkrechte Meer (The Perpendicular Sea, 1991), Fernwehanstalten (Institutes for Remote Pain, 1994), Taşa ve Kemiğe Yazılıdır (Written on Stone and Bone, translated by Menekşe Toprak, 2000), Kara Kutu (The Black Box, 2004).

ESSAY: Atlas des tropischen Deutschland (The Map of Tropical Germany, 1992), War Hitler Araber? (Was Hitler Arabian, with the Turkish name Hitler Arap mıydı, 1997).

SHORT STORY: Der Mann im Unterhemd (The Man in a Vest, 1995), Atletli Adam (The Man in a Vest, 1997).

NOVEL: Die Prärie (The Prarie, 1997), Gefährliche Vermandschaft (The Perilous Kinship, 1998).