Sherko Fatah

Sherko Fatah's novels touch on topics based on the violent conflicts in the Kurdish parts of Iraq, Iran and Turkey, including the genocidal attacks against Kurdish people by the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein.^[2][6][7]

• Im Grenzland (2001)^[8]
• Donnie (2002)^[9]
• Onkelchen (2004)^[10]
• Das dunkle Schiff (2008) later translated into English by Martin Chalmers (2015)^[11]
• Ein weißes Land (2011)^[12]
• Der letzte Ort (2014)^[13]
• Schwarzer September (2019)^[14]
• Der große Wunsch (2023)^[15]

Fatah contributed to parts of the book and journal Die neue Weltliteratur und ihre großen Erzähler in 2014 under direction of Austrian cultural commentator Sigrid Löffler.^[16]

In 2005, the Lire literary magazine named Sherko Fatah in their list 50 Writers of Tomorrow.^[17] Fatah's novel The Dark Ship was also adapted into a radio play which was broadcast on the Norddeutscher Rundfunk.^[18]

• Stadtschreiber von Bergen –2017
• Adelbert von Chamisso Prize – 2019^[2]

• Aspekte-Literaturpreis – 2001^[19]
• Hilde-Domin-Preis für Literatur im Exil – 2007^[20]
• Shortlist of the German Book Prize – 2008^[3]