Esra Canpalat is an author and literary scholar from the Ruhr region.
She studied general and comparative literature and art history at the Ruhr University Bochum. From a transcultural perspective, she writes stories, essays, academic articles, and texts on art and cultural education. She is interested in autofiction, documentation, and memory. Canpalat is the winner of the Ruhr 2021 sponsorship award and was honored in the literature competition “60 Years of Migration from Turkey – New Hopes.” She is currently working on a novel project about post-migrant memory and intergenerational trauma. Her column “Vom Rande aus” (From the Margins) appeared online at interkultur.ruhr.