Süreyyya Evren

    Novelist and storywriter (b. 19 May 1972, İstanbul). His real name is Süreyya Evren Türkeli. He added the third “y” in “Süreyyya”. He graduated from Nişantaşı Anatolian High School and then dropped out of Mimar Sinan University, Department of Architecture. He has worked as an editor, redactor and translator at publishing houses and as a member of magazine publishing committees.

His first story Susmana Gerek Var ve Oturmana (You Need to Shut Up and Sit Down) was published in Varlık in 1991. In the following years his stories, poems and articles were published in the reviews Varlık, Sombahar, Şizofrengi, Evrensel Kültür, İnsancıl and Öküz. In 1991 he won the Short Story Achievement Award in the Varlık Review’s 1000^th Issue Youth Awards.

WORKS:

NOVEL: Postmodern Bir Kız Sevdim (I Loved A Postmodern Girl, 1993), Yaşayıp Ölmek Aşk ve Avarelik Üzerine Kısa Bir Roman (A Short Novel on Dying After Living, Love and Idleness, 1994), Ur Lokantası (Tumor Restaurant, 1999).

SHORT STORY: Zaman Zeman Öyküleri (Stories of Time, 1995), Hepimiz Gogol'un Palto'sundan Çıktık (We Came out of Gogol’s Coat, 2001), Buruşuk Arzular (Crumpled Desires, 2004).

COLLECTION: Genç Şairler ve Yazarlar Kitabı (The Book of Young Poets and Writers, 1995).

ESSAY: Bağbozumları-Kültür, Politika ve Gündelik Hayat Üzerine (Vintages, Culture, Politics and Daily Life, with Rahmi G. Öğdül, 2002).

In addition, he has translated from English.

REFERENCE: Dilek Doltaş / “Postmodern Bir Kız Sevdim”, Postmodernizm: Tartışmalar ve Uygulamalar (1999), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001), Yaşar Çabuklu / Bağbozumları: Kültür Politika ve Gündelik Hayat Üzerine (Virgül, Nisan 2002) - Anarşist Bağbozumu (Virgül, Mayıs 2002), Arif Gülderen / Başka Bir Dünya Mümkün (Virgül, Haziran 2002), Uğur Büyüktezgel / Söyleşi (Varlık Kitap, Kasım 2004), İhsan Işık / Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2. bas., 2009).