Dinçer Güçyeter

Jan 27, 2025 | wordswithoutborders.org | Dinçer Güçyeter |Igiaba Scego |Raoul de Jong

In the fiction and nonfiction gathered here, members of diaspora communities in Europe navigate multiple languages, cultures, and sets of societal expectations. Dinçer Güçyeter’s kindergartner does his best to support his Turkish guest-worker parents in Germany; Igiaba Scego’s narrator describes how her Somali family has remained close despite the distances—and languages—dividing them; and Raoul de Jong considers his Surinamese father’s immigrant experience in the Netherlands.

Dec 11, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Dinçer Güçyeter |Nisrine Mbarki |Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki |Igiaba Scego

Dinçer Güçyeter’s autobiographical novel Unser Deutschlandmärchen (Our German Fairy Tale) depicts the experiences of a Turkish guest-worker family near Cologne from the perspective of alternate characters, mostly the young son and his mother. It’s 1984, and my first day at kindergarten. I don’t say a single word to the other children, I just sit in the corner like a sculpture. They speak a different language. Though we live in Germany, I still find it strange that they speak German here.

Mar 28, 2024 | internazionale.it | Dinçer Güçyeter

perché noi noi conosciamo i ladri noi conosciamo il bottino troppo spesso peregrinammo nell’errore della [parola taciuta troppo spesso saltammo i recinti delle fosse comuni troppo spesso cantammo sul campo di battaglia dei folli le nostre canzoni troppo salate sul nostro collo gli anelli di fuoco forgiati a freddo e ogni volta che una barca affonda nel Mediterraneo scivolano dal nostro grembo i cadaveri di variopinte farfalle perché noi noi sappiamo masturbarsi nei confessionali non è una...

Jun 21, 2023 | zeit.de | Nora Bossong |Jonathan Franzen |Anna Gien |Dinçer Güçyeter |Elke Heidenreich |Judith Hermann | +7 more

Wie Claire-Louise Bennett glitzernd meine Welt erweitert hat. Teich - ein Buch der irischen Autorin Claire-Louise Bennett, das ich von meinem Buchhändler nach einem Gespräch über Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk und die Regeln der Autofiktion geschenkt bekommen habe, ein Geschenk also infolge einer Assoziationskette.

May 8, 2023 | inkl.com | Betiel Berhe |Dinçer Güçyeter

Politicians, particularly those on the right, frequently decry a division that extends well beyond attitudes towards refugees and call for policies to reunite Germany.