Barbaros Altuğ
(Turkey, 1966) is a writer and journalist who has been published in various Turkish newspapers and magazines. A collection of his articles, Some Like It Black, was published in 2012. In his 2014 novella We’re Fine Here, three young Turkish men emigrate from their country after the Gezi protests. His novel Wounds in My Soul, about the Armenian Genocide, is slated to be published in 2020. He is working on a novel that portrays four generations of a Berlin family between the years of 1960 and 2010, as well as on a novella about the lives of intellectuals who fled Turkey after the attempted 2016 coup d'etat. Altuğ has been selected for a residency at Writers Unlimited, January 2020, as part of the exchange programme Be Mobile, Create Together.
Past events
Free at Last: A Day of Decolonised Life
Are these fairy tales or is this finally a decolonised world? Writers Unlimited asked eight authors to sum up a day of colonisation-free existence in poetry or prose. Eight days of liberation, each in their own way.
