The Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (German Literature Archive) has awarded PhD student Ersin Münüklü a scholarship to carry out literary research in Marbach. The topic of Münüklü’s doctoral thesis is the portrayal of marginality and the marginalised individual in late 20th- and 21st-century literature. He will be working on the Nachlass of the writer and academic Winifred Georg Sebald (1944-2001), which includes the author’s manuscripts, notes and private library.
Ersin Münüklü described his fascination with Sebald: ‘he writes from and about the margins of history and remembrance in order to draw attention to the relation of past and present identity. His protagonists are unheimliche emigrants between past and present, as well as between countries and cultures.’
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