Storywriter (b. 1945, Ankara). She
attended the İstanbul English Elementary School for Girls and Arnavutköy
American College for Girls. She left her studies at İstanbul University,
Faculty of Law at the last grade and settled in Ankara. She worked as a
translator at the Ministry of Tourism and Promotion (1965-68). She had twin
daughters, thus she gave up her professional life and dedicated herself to
writing. She gave lectures on Creative Literature at Iowa University as a guest
lecturer (1977) and worked as a columnist in the newspapers Güneş and Cumhuriyet for two years. She wrote plays and prepared programs for
radios and televisions at home and abroad. She was also the member of the Party
Assembly at the 4th term of Republican People’s Party.
Her first short
stories appeared in Varlık when she
was at the elementary school, and in Türk
Dili, Varlık, Oluşum, Yazko Edebiyat at high school. Recently, she has
focused on writing novels. Her stories have been translated into English,
French, German, Italian, Czech, Urdu and Indian. She received the Haldun Taner
Short Story Award in 1988 with Yoldan
Geçen Öyküler (Stories Passing by the Road) and the Yunus Nadi Novel Award
in 2002 with Aşkı Giyinen Adam (The
Man Wearing Love).
WORKS:
SHORT STORY: Ah Bayım Ah (Oh Mister Oh, 1967), Geceyi Tanıdım (I Recognize the Night,
1980), Kız Öpme Kuyruğu (The Queue
for Kissing the Girl, 1981), Hazır Dünya
(A World Prêt-a-Porter, 1984), Geceyi
Tanıdım / Erostratus (I Recognize the Night / Erostratus, plays-short
stories, 1985), Kuş Kafesindeki Tenor
(The Tenor in the Birdcage, plays-short stories, 1985), Eski Gece Parça Parçaları (Pieces of Old Nights, 1986), Yoldan Geçen Öyküler (Stories Passing by
the Road, 1987), Aşk Artık Burada
Oturmuyor (Love Does Not Live Here Any More, 1989), Örümceğin Kitabı (Book of the Spider, 1998), On Üç Büyülü Öykü-13 Yazar, 13 Öykü (13 Magical Stories-13 Authors,
13 Stories, collaborative work, 2002), Yalancı Öyküler (Liar Tales, 9 tales).
NOVEL: Pasifik Günleri (Days on the Pacific,
1981), Orphée (Orphée, 1983), Deniz Kenarında Pazartesi (Monday by the
Sea, memoir-novel, 1985), Arzu Sapağında
İnecek Var (Passenger to Get off at the Memories Station, 1990), Ay Falcısı (Palm reader of Memories,
1992), Aşık Papağan Barı (Café Parrot
in Love, 1993), Yıldızlar Mektup Yazar
(Stars Write Letters, 1993), Uyku
İstasyonu (Sleep Station, 1994), Bir
Yaz Gecesi (A Summer’s Night, 1994), İmparator
Çay Bahçesi (Emperor Tea House, 1997), Elyazması
Rüyalar (Hand-written Dreams, 1998), Ayışığı
Sofrası (Moonlight Table, 2000), Aşkı
Giyinen Adam (The Man Wearing Love, 2001), Beyoğlu’nda Gezersin (You Hang Around about Beyoğlu, 2005).
ESSAY: Düş İşleri Bülteni (Bulletin of Dream Affairs, 1994), Kapıyı Vurmadan Gir (Come in Without
Knocking the Door).
