Feridun Zaimoglu

Feridun Zaimoglu made a spectacular entrance onto the German cultural scene in 1995 with Kanak Sprak : a volume of incendiary texts based on interviews with disaffected Turkish German youths, using an invented, stylized literary language, a hybrid of multiple varieties of German with a hip hop beat. A prolific and acclaimed novelist, dramatist, newspaper columnist, visual artist and live performer, Zaimoglu has remained in the public eye through controversy and reinvention. His more recent work