Ayşe Kilimci

Story Writer, Writer

Education
Ankara Academy of Social Service

Storywriter (b. 1954, İzmir). She is a graduate of İzmir High School for Girls and Ankara Academy of Social Services. She served as social services expert at the Mersin Child Protection House. Her stories have been published in the reviews Varlık, Dönemeç, Oluşu, Türk Dili, Yansıma since 1972. She received an honorable mention at the Abdi İpekçi, 1982 Peace and Friendship Award Ceremony with her work Sevdadır Her İşin Başı (Everything Starts with Love). In 1995, she collected the Yunus Nadi Story Award with Yeni Moda Aşklar Destanı (Epic of Fashionable Love).

WORKS:

SHORT STORY: Yapma Çiçek Ustaları (Masters of Artificial Flowers, 1976), Sevdadır Her İşin Başı (Everything Starts with Love, 1983), Sevgi Yetimi Çocuklar (Children Deprived of Love, 1987), Gül Bekçisi (Rose Night Watchman, 1989), Yeni Moda Aşklar Destanı (Epic of Fashionable Love, 1997), Mucize Var mıdır Memet Abla? (Sister Mehmet, Is There a Miracle?, 2002).

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Benim Adım Çocuk (My Name Is Child, 1989), Elimizdeki Işık (The Light in Our Hands, 1990), Çöp Kraliçe (The Queen Made of Sticks, 1990), Masal Ektim Umut Biçtim (I Planted Fairy Tales and Harvested Hope, 1991), Dikenci Karga (The Crow That Sells Thorns, 1991).

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