Kerstin Hensel is one of the most productive and successful young writers in Germany today. From the late 1970s onwards she has published in a wide variety of genres, although she remains best known for her novels, short stories and poetry. Her most important work to date is the story "Tanz am Kanal "(1994), which has received much acclaim and has been widely discussed. Hensel has won a wide range of literary prizes and scholarships.In accordance with the aims of this series, this book is intended both as an introduction for the general reader and as a resource for the specialist. Through a...

Zafer Senocak is the most prominent and versatile German Turkish writer today. A prize-winning poet, translator, editor, political and philosophical essayist, and fiction writer, Senocak is the most challenging voice of the Turkish population in united Germany. His stylish and provocative essays explore taboo and repressed aspects of relations between Occident and Orient, Europe and Islam. His fiction has won him international acclaim, especially the post-unification novel "Gefahrliche Verwandtschaft "(1998), which deals with the German-Jewish-Turkish-Armenian complex. But poetry is always at...