Buket Uzuner
Writer (b. 3 October 1955, Ankara). She graduated from Hacettepe University (1976). She has used the pen name Günsu Bertan in some of her works. She did her graduate studies in the field of ecology at the universities of Bergen in Norway (1981) and Michigan in the United States (1983) and worked as lecturer at the Middle East Technical University (1984) and Tampere Technical University (1986). Then she worked in the private sector in the areas of advertising, tourism and press.
Her stories and works were published firstly in the magazine Dönemeç in 1977 and then in Yarın, Türk Dili, Varlık, Gergedan, Argos, Rapsodi (1989, 1992), etc. Her works have been translated into various languages. She received an honorable mention at the Yunus Nadi Short Story Competition and won the 1993 Yunus Nadi Novel Award with her book Balık İzlerinin Sesi (The Sound of the Fish Steps). She is a member of the Canadian Writers Foundation and the Association of Turkish PEN Writers (on the board of directors between 1993-95).
In 2011 she published Benim Adım İstanbul. Her Nature Quartet (The Adventures of Defne Kaman the Misfit), which began with Su (Water, 2012), continued with Toprak (Earth, 2015) and Hava (Air, 2018) and was completed with Ateş (Fire, 2023). In 2016 she received the Short Story Honorary Award from Ankara University and the Ankara Short Story Days Association.
WORKS:
SHORT STORY: Benim Adım Mayıs (My Name is May, 1986), Ayın En Çıplak Günü (The Most Naked Day of the Month, 1988), Güneş Yiyen Çingene (The Gypsy Who Ate the Sun, 1989), Şairler Şehri (The City of Poets, 1994).
NOVEL: İki Yeşil Susamuru, Anneleri, Babaları, Sevgilileri ve Diğerleri (Two Green Otters, Their Mothers, Fathers, Lovers and The Others, 1991), Balık İzlerinin Sesi (The Sound of the Fish Steps, 1992), Kumral Ada, Mavi Tuna (Mediterranean Waltz, 1997), Gelibolu (Gallipoli, 2002), Gümüş Yaz (The Silver Summer, 2002), Su (Water, 2012), Toprak (Earth, 2015), Hava (Air, 2018), Ateş (Fire, 2023).
TRAVEL LITERATURE: Bir Siyah Saçlı Kadının Gezi Notları (Travel Notes of a Brunette, 1989).
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Writer (b. 3 October 1955, Ankara). She graduated from Hacettepe University (1976). She has used the pen name Günsu Bertan in some of her works. She did her graduate studies in the field of ecology at the universities of Bergen in Norway (1981) and Michigan in the United States (1983) and worked as lecturer at the Middle East Technical University (1984) and Tampere Technical University (1986). Then she worked in the private sector in the areas of advertising, tourism and press.
Her stories and works were published firstly in the magazine Dönemeç in 1977 and then in Yarın, Türk Dili, Varlık, Gergedan, Argos, Rapsodi (1989, 1992), etc. Her works have been translated into various languages. She received an honorable mention at the Yunus Nadi Short Story Competition and won the 1993 Yunus Nadi Novel Award with her book Balık İzlerinin Sesi (The Sound of the Fish Steps). She is a member of the Canadian Writers Foundation and the Association of Turkish PEN Writers (on the board of directors between 1993-95).
In 2011 she published Benim Adım İstanbul. Her Nature Quartet (The Adventures of Defne Kaman the Misfit), which began with Su (Water, 2012), continued with Toprak (Earth, 2015) and Hava (Air, 2018) and was completed with Ateş (Fire, 2023). In 2016 she received the Short Story Honorary Award from Ankara University and the Ankara Short Story Days Association.
WORKS:
SHORT STORY: Benim Adım Mayıs (My Name is May, 1986), Ayın En Çıplak Günü (The Most Naked Day of the Month, 1988), Güneş Yiyen Çingene (The Gypsy Who Ate the Sun, 1989), Şairler Şehri (The City of Poets, 1994).
NOVEL: İki Yeşil Susamuru, Anneleri, Babaları, Sevgilileri ve Diğerleri (Two Green Otters, Their Mothers, Fathers, Lovers and The Others, 1991), Balık İzlerinin Sesi (The Sound of the Fish Steps, 1992), Kumral Ada, Mavi Tuna (Mediterranean Waltz, 1997), Gelibolu (Gallipoli, 2002), Gümüş Yaz (The Silver Summer, 2002), Su (Water, 2012), Toprak (Earth, 2015), Hava (Air, 2018), Ateş (Fire, 2023).
TRAVEL LITERATURE: Bir Siyah Saçlı Kadının Gezi Notları (Travel Notes of a Brunette, 1989).
