Storywriter, playwright and
translator (b. 6 June 1947, Kütahya). She has also used the pen name Zeynep
Karabey. She attended Erenköy High School for Girls, Secondary Section and
Kadıköy College for Girls. She did not finish her studies at Middle Eastern
Technical University, Faculty of Administrational Sciences and İstanbul
University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Sociology. She worked for the
newspapers Cumhuriyet, Yeni İstanbul,
Milliyet, Hürriyet, Dünya and Focus;
as the Turkish representative to Sipa Press and at the Paris Department of the
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation and in the reviews Pamuk Çocuk and Focus. She was
also editor-in-chief of these reviews. She continues her work in İstanbul and
Bodrum.
Her short stories, research and
critiques have been published in the review Yazko
Somut, where she was also an editor for a while, and in many reviews such
as Milliyet Sanat, Varlık, Cumhuriyet
Kitap, Kitap-lık since 1981. She has written screenplays for some films
directed by famous directors such as Zülfü Livaneli and Atıf Yılmaz. She
collected the Ankara Arts Foundation Award with her play titled Gılgamış (Gilgamesh) and the Avni
Dilligil Best Translation Award with Abelard
ve Heloise (Abelard and Heloise). Besides her compilation works, she
attracted great attention with her clean and perfect use of the Turkish
language in her translations.
WORKS:
SHORT STORY: Kötü Bir Yaratık (An Evil Creature,
1983), Ahşap Köşkün Hanımefendisi
(Lady of the Wooden Mansion, 1991), Aşk
Meleğinin İşleri (Deeds of the Angel of Love, 1998).
PLAY: Gılgamış (Gilgamesh, 1997).
COLLECTION: A’dan Z’ye Abidin Dino (Abidin Dino from A to Z, 2000).
In addition, she
has translated some works by Joyce, Duncan and Shakespeare.