Autor/-in: Burhan Sonmez

Burhan Sönmez. was born in Turkey and grew up speaking Turkish and Kurdish. He worked as a lawyer in Istanbul, and was a founder of the social-activist culture organization TAKSAV (Foundation for Social Research, Culture and Art). Sins and Innocents, his second novel, received the Sedat Simavi Literature Award, Turkey's most prestigious literature prize - which Sönmez is the youngest-ever author to win.