Akif Pirincci

Akif Pirinçci
Akif Pirinçci in 2014
Born	(1959-10-20) 20 October 1959 (age 57) Istanbul, Turkey
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Nationality	German
Ethnicity	Turkish
Subject	Murder mystery, thriller, crime fiction, detective
Notable works	Felidae

Akif Pirinçci (German pronunciation: [ˈpiːʁɪntʃi]; born 20 October 1959) is a Turkish-born German writer who is best known internationally for his novel Felidae. His statements on feminism, opposition to immigration, and description of Germany as a "muslim garbage dump" have provoked controversy in Germany and throughout Europe.

Pirinçci was born on 20 October 1959 in Istanbul, Turkey, but emigrated to Germany together with his parents in 1969. He began to write fiction at a young age, and published his first novel Tränen sind immer das Ende ("tears are always the end") in 1980, at the age of 21. His next literary work, published in 1989, was the novel Felidae, a work of crime fiction with cats as the main protagonists. The novel has been translated into 17 languages and became an international bestseller.

Due to the enormous success of the novel, Pirinçci expanded his concept of "cat crime fiction" and published several sequels to Felidae, out of which Felidae II and Felidae V (Salve Roma!) have been translated into English. An animated movie based on Felidae, the script of which had been co-written by Pirinçci, was produced in Germany in 1994, and was also dubbed in English.

Pirinçci has published several other novels which were not set in the fictional world of the Felidae series – however, none of those works have reached such a high degree of popularity. Lately, however, he had some success with the thriller "The Back Door", which was adapted for the screen in Germany, with Mads Mikkelsen in the leading role. "The Back Door" is the only standalone novel of Pirinçci's that has been translated into English.

Pirinçci currently lives in Bonn in Germany.

Pirinçci published non-fiction essays in 2012 on Facebook, and in right-wing newspapers such as Junge Freiheit, eigentümlich frei, and Sezession.

Pirinçci's essays were collected in the two books Deutschland von Sinnen - Der irre Kult um Frauen, Homosexuelle und Zuwanderer (2014, "Germany Gone Mad: The Crazy Cult Around Women, Homosexuals, and Immigrants"), which soon became a bestseller, and Die große Verschwulung – Wenn aus Männern Frauen werden und aus Frauen keine Männer (2015, "The Big Gayification: When men become women and women won't become men"), both published by the retail company Manufactum, as part of Edition Sonderweg edited by André F. Lichtschlag, the publisher and editor-in-chief of eigentümlich frei and a writer for Junge Freiheit.