Aras Ören
Artist
Biography
Aras Ören (born 1939 in Istanbul) is a writer of Turkish origin who moved to Berlin in 1969. He was an editor at Sender Freies Berlin and head of the Turkish editorial team of Radio Multikulti. He writes in Turkish and helps translate his works into German; they include Was will Niyazi in der Naunynstraße (1973), Privatexil (1976) and Berlin-Savignyplatz (1995). He received the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 1985 and has been a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, since 2012.