Storywriter (b. 18
January 1966, İstanbul). Her full name is Müge İplikçi-Çakır. She attended the
Kadıköy Anatolian High School and later graduated from Istanbul University,
Department of English Language and Literature. She completed her graduate
studies on Popüler Kültür ve Kadın (Popular Culture and Women) at the
Institute for Social Sciences Centre for Research on Women’s Studies, at the
same university. She worked as a teacher of English at Kadıköy Anatolian High
School and as a lecturer of Turkish at the State University of Ohio in the
United States. She resumed her studies in İstanbul when she came back to
Turkey.
She wrote stories in
which she dealt with women’s problems, which were primarily published in the
reviews Adam Öykü, Varlık etc. With her works, she collected the Yaşar
Nabi Nayır Young Writers Award in 1996 and was ranked third in the Haldun Taner
Short Story Award in 1997.
WORKS:
SHORT
STORY: Perende (Somersault, 1998), Columbus'un Kadınları (Women of Columbus,
2000), Arkası Yarın (To Be Continued, 2001), Fırat'a Karışan Öyküler
(Stories Thrown into the River Euphrates, book written with the collaboration
of fifteen storywriters, with designs by Tan Oral, 2001), Transit Yolcular
(Transit Passengers, 2002), On Üç Büyülü Öykü-13 Yazar, 13 Öykü
(Thirteen Magical Stories-13 Authors, 13 Stories, 2002).
NOVEL: Kül ve Yel (The
Ash and Wind, 2004).
ESSAY-RESEARCH: Cımbızın Çektikleri (What the
Tweezers Plucked Out, with Ümran Kartal, 2002), Yıkık Kentli Kadınlar
(The Women of the Ruined City, 2002).