Novelist and short-story writer (b. 8
March 1967, İstanbul). She graduated from Kadıköy College (1977), İstanbul
American Robert High School (1984), Boğaziçi University, Department of Computer
Engineering (1988). In 1991, she started to work as a researcher in the same
department. She served at the European Nuclear Research Center as a physicist
between 1992 and 1993. She completed his postgraduate education at Boğaziçi
University after she returned to Turkey in 1993.
She worked as a researcher at the
Catholic University, Department of Physics in Rio de Janeiro where she went one
year later. Afterwards, she worked as a computer programmer, dancer and teacher
of English. She is a member of the Writers Syndicate of Turkey and the PEN
Authors Association. She works in İstanbul.
Her short stories
and other articles have been published in the reviews Argos, Adam Öykü and Atlas and
in the newspaper Radikal since 1991.
She became popular with her first two books Kabuk
Adam (The Shell Man) and Mucizevi Mandarin
(The Magic Mandarin). She came third at the 1990 Yunus Nadi Short Story Award
with Son Elveda (The Last Farewell)
and received the 1997 Deutsche Welle (Voice of Germany Radio) Short Story Award
with Tahta Kuşlar / Holzvögel (The
Wooden Birds).
WORKS:
NOVEL: Kabuk Adam (The Shell Man, 1994), Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent (The City with Red Pelerine, 1998).
SHORT STORY: Mucizevi Mandarin (The Magic Mandarin,
1996), Tahta Kuşlar/Holzvögel (The
Wooden Birds, 1998).
ESSAY: Bir Yolculuk Ne Zaman Biter (When a Journey
Does Finish, 2000).
