Name
Çağla Arıbal
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    • Biography
    Çağla Arıbal is a writer based in Berlin, Germany, originally from Turkey. She holds a BA and MA in literature and offers creative writing courses in art institutions in Europe with the aim of creating a supportive writing network, especially for writers who are willingly or unwillingly displaced. Her short prose works and poems appeared in various literary magazines in New York, Berlin, Istanbul and Switzerland. She is currently writing her debut novel upcoming in 2023.
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    Artist Statement
    Many of Çağla Arıbal's passions in life are riveted together in the realm of literature. Inclined toward “morally passionate and passionately moral” stories written in placid but with ironic, unexpected wrinkles. She is deeply interested in the topics of authorship, forgery, displacement and interplays between languages. When a piece demands different forms (and multitudes) than simply writing, she aspires to stage them, accompanied by other mediums such as music and film. She is always inspired by the synergy emerging from collective work. To cherish that richness, she leads writing courses and workshops with a non-didactic approach and with bare hands accompanied by open minds. It is important for her to make literature or any form of written expression not an aloof occupation but a pertinent, redeemable one, especially when life gets too serious while we are rebuilding a life in another country.
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