Aras Ören

Aras Ören is a writer of Turkish origin, currently living in Germany. He was born in November 1939 in Istanbul, and moved to Berlin in 1969. He was an editor at Sender Freies Berlin and head of the Turkish editorial team of Radio Multikulti at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. In 1981, he received an honorary prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 1985, he was awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize. In 1999, he was a lecturer at the University of Tübingen. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.