Journalist and writer (b. 19
April 1946, İstanbul). Her mother is the daughter of Şevker Öntersev, who
served as the aid-de-camp of Atatürk and later elected as Gümüşhane deputy of
Republican People’s Party. She used the pen name Şirin, too. She attended
Kadıköy High School for Girls and graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty
of Literature, Department of Pedagogy (1971). She worked as a pedagogist for
two years and started to work as a journalist in the newspaper Hürriyet in 1972. She worked as a
columnist and reporter in the newspaper Kelebek.
She also worked as reporter in the newspaper Ayrıntılı Haber and as a text writer for Man Ajans (1976-78). In
1978 she entered to Gelişim Publishing as the editor-in-chief and edited many
reviews such as Kadınca, On Yedi, Kim, Ev
Kadını, Bella Bayan, Moda, First. She also worked as columnist, reporter
and manager in the newspapers Söz, Sabah
and Güneş in that period. She still
works as columnist in the newspaper Milliyet.
She took a role in the films Umut Yarıda
Kaldı (Expectation was Aborted), Yarın
Cumartesi (Tomorrow is Saturday) and Bay E (Mr. E).
Her articles about problems
of women and magazine were published in the newspapers and reviews Kelebek, (1972-74), Ayrıntılı Haber (1975), Kadınca
(1978-88). She gained fame with her book Kadının Adı Yok (The Name of Woman Does Not Exist) that broke sale
record when it was published forty times in two years and then it reached
fifty-three editions. The book was chosen as the book of the year by Boğaziçi
University (1988) and translated and published Germany, Holland and Greece. In
Greece it became a bestseller. Her other books were also published for many
times.
WORKS:
Kadının Adı Yok (The Name of Woman Does not Exist, 1987), Aslında Aşk da Yok (Actually, There Is not Love Too, 1989), Kahramanlar Hep Erkek (Heroes are Always
Masculine, 1992), Değişen Bir Şey Yok
(Nothing Has Changed, 1994), Aynada Aşk
Vardı (There was Love in the Mirror, 2000), Aşk Gidiyorum Demez (Love Does not Say “I am Leaving”, 2003).