Zafer Şenocak (b. 1961) is a German-Turkish author of poetry, essays, and books. After moving in 1970 to Germany with his family and attending school in Munich, Şenocak has become a leading voice on transnationalism, Turkish-German exchange, and national and cultural identity. Coming from a self-described mixed family, with his mother having more secular beliefs as a Kemalist and his father coming from a Muslim family, many of his works deal with contemporary Islam and reflections on his own and his family’s beliefs, such as in his 2016 novel about his late father entitled In your Words: Speculations on the Beliefs of my Father. His most famous work, Perilous Kinship (1998), investigates the relationships between Germans, Jews, and Turks.
Lessons on Şenocak’s Work
Lessons from Related Themes
- al-Mozany, Der Marschländer: Bagdad, Beirut, Berlin (1999)
- Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008) Module: Writing the Self/Other
- Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008) Module
- Keça Filankes, “Zwei Çaylöffel Şekir,” 2020
- Ostashevsky, “The Feeling Sonnets,” 2019
- Popoola, Also By Mail, 2013
- Ören, “Was Will Niyazi in der Naunynstrasse?” 1973
- Selimović and Ronen, Roma Armee, 2017
