"My brother" (Swiss Press Text 2020, by Cigdem Akyol) - Swiss Press Award
Das Magazin
Text
2020
Cigdem Akyol
My essay describes our life with our disabled family member, Deniz. I chose the first-person perspective because I miss the perspective of my siblings in public. In 2014, an essay about my brother appeared in the daily newspaper taz (https://taz.de/Kind-mit-Downsyndrom/!5035766/). The text at the time was around 8,000 characters long; the text now published has around 33,000 characters.
