Storywriter and novelist (b. 1944, Denizli).
She attended the Manisa Primary Teacher Training School for Girls (1961), and
graduated from Gazi Institute of Education, Department of Painting and
Handcrafts (1964). She worked as a teacher in secondary schools in Samsun
(1964-67), Manisa (1967-77), İzmir (1977) and Ankara (1977-84). She was retired
in the year 1984. Then, she managed a store of ceramic in İstanbul (1986).
Her first stories were published in the
reviews Türk Dili, Varlık, and then Dönemeç, Soyut, and Sesimiz.
She collected the Akademi Publishing House Tale Award with her book Ağda
Zamanı (Time for Epilation, 1979), the Nevzat Üstün Tale Award with the
book Kıran Resimleri (The Pictures of Pestilence), which tells about the
events in Maraş in 1979 and which was published in France; the Yunus Nadi Novel
Award in 1992 with her first novel Ölü Erkek Kuşlar (The Dead Male
Birds), and the Yunus Nadi Tale Award in 2001 with Gölgede Kırk Derece (Forty
Degrees in Shadow). Kıran Resimleri (The Pictures of Pestilence) was
translated into French and published in France. In her short stories and
novels, she usually dealt with relationship of man and woman, female identity,
the questions of faithfulness and freedom, in a feminine manner.
WORKS:
SHORT STORY: Ağda Zamanı (The Time for
Epilation, 1979), Kıran Resimleri (The Pictures of Pestilence, 1983),
Uykusuzlar (Sleepless, 1984), Sevginin Eşsiz Kışı (Unique Winter of
Love, 1986), Gölgede Kırk Derece (Forty Degrees in Shadow, 2001), On
Üç Büyülü Öykü-13 Yazar, 13 Öykü (Thirteen Magic Tales - 13 Writers, 13
Tales, collaborative book, 2002).
NOVEL: Ölü Erkek Kuşlar (Dead Male
Birds, 1991), Yeni Yalan Zamanlar (New Fake Times, 1994), Hiçbir Aşk
Hiçbir Ölüm (None of Love, None of Death, 1997), İçimden Kuşlar Göçüyor (Birds
are Migrating from Inside of Me, 1998), Mor (Purple, 2003), Taş ve
Ten (Stone and Flesh, 2004).
ESSAY-MEMOIR: Anlar İzler Tutkular (Moments Traces Ambitions,
2003).