Eda Gunaydin Eda Gunaydin i(A136159 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1994 ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Turkish
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BiographyHistory

Eda Gunaydin is a writer based in western Sydney. Fluent in Spanish and Turkish, she has been a research assistant at the University of Sydney and a tutor with the Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning Program.

She was a 2016 CAL WestWords Emerging Writers' Fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Neilam Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant for work exploring the Turkish disapora.

Her work has appeared in numerous periodicals.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 commended Australian Centre Literary Awards Peter Blazey Fellowship
2023 recipient The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund to travel to the United States to conduct a research trip towards a manuscript and second essay collection.
2022 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Individuals and groups ($24,000)

Awards for Works

Pedestrian 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2022;
2023 shortlisted The Woollahra Digital Literary Award Non-fiction
y separately published work icon Root and Branch : Essays on Inheritance Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2022 20490993 2022 selected work essay

'There is a Turkish saying that one’s home is not where one is born, but where one grows full – doğduğun yer, doyduğun yer. Mixing the personal and political, Eda Gunaydin’s bold and innovative writing explores race, class, gender and violence, and Turkish diaspora – both in Australia and round the world – in her compelling debut.

'Equal parts piercing, tender and funny, this book takes us from an overworked and underpaid café job in Western Sydney, the mother-daughter tradition of sharing a meal in the local kebab shop, a night clubbing with Turkish students, to the legacies of family migration, and intergenerational trauma within a history of violence and political activism.

'For readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Durga Chew-Bose, Eda Gunaydin seeks to unsettle neat descriptions of migration and diaspora. How should we address a racist remark on the 2AM night ride bus? What does the Turkish diaspora of Auburn in Western Sydney have in common with Neukölln in Berlin? And how can we look to past suffering to imagine a new future?' (Publication summary)

2023 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
2023 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Award for Non-Fiction
Öz 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Collisions : Fictions of the Future : An Anthology of Australian Writers of Colour 2020; (p. 28-31)
2019 longlisted Liminal Fiction Prize
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