Akif Pirinçci
| Akif Pirinçci | |
|---|---|
 Akif Pirinçci in 2014 | |
| Born |
20 October 1959 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | German |
| Ethnicity | Turkish |
| Subject | Murder mystery, Thriller, Crime fiction, Detective |
| Notable works | Felidae |
Akif Pirinçci (German pronunciation: [piːʁɪntʃi]; born 20 October 1959) is a German writer of Turkish origin who is best known internationally for his novel Felidae.
Biography
Pirinçci was born on 20 October 1959 in Istanbul, Turkey, but emigrated to Germany together with his parents in 1969. He began to write fiction at a young age, and published his first novel Tränen sind immer das Ende (literally meaning "tears always are the end") in 1980, at the age of 21. His next literary work, published in 1989, was the novel Felidae, a work of crime fiction with cats as the main protagonists. The novel has been translated into 17 languages and became an international bestseller. Due to the enormous success of the novel, Pirinçci expanded his concept of "cat crime fiction" and published several sequels to Felidae, out of which Felidae II and Felidae V (Salve Roma!) have been translated into English. An animated movie based on Felidae, the script of which had been co-written by Pirinçci, has been produced in Germany in 1994, and was also dubbed in English.
Pirinçci has published several other novels which were not set in the fictional reality of the Felidae series – however, none of those works have reached such a high degree of popularity. Lately, however, he had some success with the thriller "The Back Door", which was adapted for the screen in Germany, with Mads Mikkelsen ("Casino Royale") in the leading role. "The Back Door" is the only standalone novel of Pirinçci's that has been translated into English.
Pirinçci currently lives in Bonn in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Controversies
Lately Pirinçci has come under critique because of gloss he wrote for the libertarian political blog Die Achse des Guten, which is considered racist by many, where he comes out saying that Arabs and Turks kill German men, but only rape German women due to evolutionary reasons, something that was also reposted by the Scandinavian Islam-critical paper Dispatch-International.
On 20 January 2015, the local paper General-Anzeiger reported that Pirinçci had been convicted of defamation in a civil suit brought by a professor of sociology and biology, whom Pirinçci had described as a "mentally sick, manic queer with a screw loose" ("geisteskranken, durchgeknallten Schwulen mit Dachschaden"). Pirinçci had also desribed the professor's theories as a "jewel of stupidity" ("Juwel der Doofheit").[1]
List of literary works
- Tränen sind immer das Ende (1980)
- Felidae (German: Felidae) (1989)
- Der Rumpf (literally meaning "the torso") (1992)
- Felidae II aka Felidae on the Road (German: Francis. Felidae II) (1993)
- Felidae animated movie (script) (1994)
- Yin (1997)
- Cave Canem. Felidae III (1999)
- Die Damalstür (literally meaning "the door to back then" (2001)
- Das Duell. Felidae IV ("the duel") (2002)
- Salve Roma! Felidae V (2004)
- Der letzte Weltuntergang: Krimi-Erzählungen ("The Final Apocalypse") (2007)
- Schandtat Felidae VI (2007)
- Felipolis Felidae VII (2010)
- The Back Door (2011)
List of non-fiction works
- Cat Sense (2011)
- Deutschland von Sinnen: Der irre Kult um Frauen, Homosexuelle und Zuwanderer (2014) (2011)
References
- ↑ Beleidigung kostet Pirinçci 8000 Euro, General-Anzeiger Bonn, 20 January 2015
- Cheesman, Tom (2007). "Akif Pirinçci: The Individualistic Cosmopolitan of Denial". Novels of Turkish German settlement: cosmopolite fictions. Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture. Camden House,. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-1-57113-374-8.