Poet and
writer (b. 17 April 1955, Adapazarı). Her full name is Asuman Figen Tümer. She
completed her primary and secondary education in Adapazarı. She attended
Cumhuriyet Primary School (1965), Private Sakarya College Secondary School
(1968) and graduated from Adapazarı Commercial High School (1971) and the
İstanbul Academy of Commercial Sciences (1976). After 1976, she worked at
Turkish Airlines for twelve years where she became a manager. After working as
Assistant Director of Flight Services at a private company (1990-91), she went
to the United States. She returned to İstanbul in 1998. She then started
working as the general editor-in-chief at the magazine The Best in İstanbul.
Her
stories have been published in many reviews and journals since 1977, the year
in which she started writing stories. A great majority of her stories have been
published in The Best as the United States correspondent (1996). She won first
prize at the Ankara Story Days Oktay Akbal Short Story Competition with her
three stories. Her earlier stories were influenced by Tolstoy, Thomas Mann and
Sait Faik but later she rejected all external literary influences and obtained
a unique style of writing.
WORKS:
Poetry: Asuman
(Asuman, 1997), Gökkuşağı Tarlası (2019).
Short Story: Ayarı
Bozuk Çayevi (Unregulated Teahouse, 2000).
Novel:
Kura’nın Şarkısı (2007), Güneş Suya Ne Söyler (2009).
REFERENCE: Berna Tuna Fenemen / Life Time (Klips dergisi, Mart
1999), Akbal Ödülü Tümer'in (Hürriyet gazetesi, 29.11.1999), Nalan Barbarosoğlu / Yenilerle Dolu
Verimli Bir Yıl (Cumhuriyet gazetesi, 20.12.2000), İhsan Işık / Yazarlar
Sözlüğü (1990, 1998) - Türkiye Yazarlar Ansiklopedisi (2001, 2004) –
Encyclopedia of Turkish Authors (2005) - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye
Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007) - Ünlü
Kadınlar (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 4, 2013) - Encyclopedia of
Turkey’s Famous People (2013).
