Jon Cho-Polizzi Translator

Fatma Aydemir, born in Karlsruhe, lives in Berlin and works as a journalist, publicist, and editor. Her debut novel, Ellbogen (Elbow), was published by Hanser in 2017 and won the Klaus Michael KÜhne Prize and the Franz Hessel Prize for best authorial debut. In 2019 she published the anthology Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum (Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare) together with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah.

Jon Cho-Polizzi is a literary translator and assistant professor of German at the University of Michigan. He is the coeditor of Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah’s translated essay collection Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare as well as the translator of Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum (Ada’s Realm) and Max Czollek’s Desintegriert Euch! (De-Integrate! A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century).