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Registration Deadline:
March 15, 2008 |
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Dilek Güngör
| Turkish-German journalist and author Dilek Güngör will be a special guest at the conference. She will be on campus for five days, starting Wednesday March 26. Güngör will visit with students, give a reading on Friday night, and participate in Saturday's roundtable discussion on Transnational Studies/Transnational Literature. Güngör is the author of three books, all of which reflect on Turkish life in Germany and the relationship of first and second generation Turkish-Germans to both their country of residence (and often of citizenship), Germany, and their country of national and/or cultural origin, Turkey. For more information about the author, see the biographical entry below.
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| Dilek Güngör is an up-and-coming journalist, columnist and author who in her writings blends her Turkish background and her German upbringing, providing a unique perspective on life's complexities in twenty-first century Germany. Born in Swabian Gmünd to Turkish Gastarbeiter, Güngör had a fairly normal childhood. She has said, however, that she has always been aware of being different from those around her, because "if someone didn't want to play with you or didn't want to speak to you, it was because you were Turkish and you realize that very, very early."(1) Güngör attended a Catholic high school and ... [more] |
 Photo courtesy of Torsten Linz |
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