Özgecan Kesici
Bio
life
Özgecan Kesici (she/her) was born in Munich to Kazakh-Turkish parents. After spending a substantial part of her adult life in Dublin, she now lives in Berlin.
She is currently completing edits on her debut novel: Silver is Lighter, a historical female epic for which she was awarded a 2022 Berlin Senate Literature Work Stipend.
Her debut poetry collection is set to be released in 2024. Credits include: Banshee, Local Wonders (Dedalus Press), Poetry Ireland Review.
She is the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and the Literature Bursary.
She speaks Kazakh, Turkish, English, German, French, and Russian, has taken the Summer School for Literary Translation in Poetry, University of East Anglia, and works as a literary translator.
Her translation of Rakhymzhan Otarbayev's Kazakh short stories, Der Verräter - Сатқын, is set to be published with Dağyeli Verlag, 2023.
Özgecan Kesici holds a PhD in Sociology from University College Dublin on the Kazakh Alash Movement, 2017.
Open to queries via ozgecan.kesici (at) gmail (dot) com.
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