She arrived in Germany in 1973 and studied literature at Leibniz University Hannover. Her works deal mainly with migration and integration. Since 2003, she has been working as a professor at Hochschule Darmstadt.[1]
Works
May Ayim, Canan Topçu (Red.): …aus dem Inneren der Sprache. Internat. Kulturwerk, Hildesheim 1995
Canan Topçu: EinBÜRGERung. Lesebuch über das Deutsch-Werden. Portraits, Interviews, Fakten. 1. Aufl., Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2007