(NL Times) Lale Gül, author of Ik ga leven (I am going to live), may leave the country temporarily due to fresh threats after the German translation of her book was released on Sunday, according to NU.nl. The 24-year-old explained to the news site that she is fearful of further threats when the English and French translations of her novel come out in the near future. “That’s why I’m thinking about going abroad for a while and writing there.”
Ik ga leven created controversy for discussing Islam in a negative light. Gül’s work is a fictionalized account of her childhood in Amsterdam West where she grew up in a conservative Muslim family. After its publication early last year, the author received threats from individuals within strict Islamic circles. One of the more serious threats came from 19-year-old Oguz Ö.
