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Menekşe Toprak was born on 1970 in Kayseri, Turkey, is a German-Turkish writer, literary translator, and cultural journalist. Discover Menekşe Toprak's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?
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Menekşe Toprak Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Menekşe Toprak worth at the age of 54 years old? Menekşe Toprak’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from . We have estimated Menekşe Toprak's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Menekşe Toprak (born 1970 in Kayseri, Turkey) is a German-Turkish writer, literary translator, and cultural journalist.
She lives in Berlin and Istanbul.
Toprak initially lived with her grandfather in a village in the Kayseri Province and moved to Germany at the age of nine to join her parents, who were part of the first generation of recruited Turkish workers.
Toprak attended school in Cologne.
At the age of 15, she returned to Turkey and completed her high school education at the Yahya Kemal Beyatlı Gymnasium in Ankara.
She then studied political science at Ankara University.
After completing her studies, she worked for four years at a bank in Ankara, two of which were spent in a Berlin branch of the bank.
She briefly worked as a project manager at the Bertelsmann Book Club in Warsaw.
She also worked as a literary translator from 1999 to 2003, translating works by Arseni Tarkovski, Zafer Şenocak, and Akif Pirinçci into Turkish.
Starting from 2002, she worked as a radio journalist for the public radio station Radio Multikulti in Berlin, contributing to the Turkish-language programs in the field of German literary criticism.
Toprak writes short stories and novels in Turkish.
She began her writing career with short stories, with her first short story Eve Dönüş (Homecoming) being published in the magazine Kitap-lık in 2005.
Her story collection Valizdeki Mektup (The Letter in the Suitcase) was published in 2007, followed by Hangi Dildedir Aşk (Which Language Is Love) in 2009.
Jahrhunderts'', published in 2008 by Insel-Verlag.
Her debut novel Temmuz Çocukları (July Children) was published in 2011.
In the cultural and societal magazine Freitext, the story "Der Brief im Koffer" (Turkish: "Valizdeki Mektup"), translated into German by Koray Yilmaz Günay, was published in 2012.
Her novel Ağıtın Sonu (The End of the Lament) was awarded the Duygu Asena Novel Prize in 2015.
Her novel Arı Fısıltıları (Whispers of Bees) won the Ankara University Literature Prize in the Novel category in 2019.
Her novel Déjà-vu was published in 2022, for which she received the "Work Grant of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe for Literature in Non-German Language" in 2021.
Toprak's works have been translated into several languages, including German, French, English, Italian, and Serbian.
The story Die Begegnung by Toprak, translated into German by Ruth Haerkötter, is from her collection Valizdeki Mektup and is included in the anthology ''Türkische Erzählungen des 20.
