Esra Canpalat studied general and comparative literature and art history at the Ruhr University Bochum. She writes stories, essays, academic articles and cultural mediation texts from an anti-racist, transcultural and feminist position. She is interested in autofiction, documentation and remembrance. Canpalat is a winner of the 2021 Ruhr Prize and was honoredin the literary competition "60 Years of Migration from Turkey - New Hopes" . She is currently working on a novel project about post-migrant memory and intergenerational trauma. Her column "Vom Rande aus"appears online at interkultur.ruhr.
The event is part of the finissage of the exhibition "FATMA ÖZAY. Memory Textures" at STADT_RAUM.
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