Ayse Kulin
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Ayşe Kulin is a Turkish
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 contemporary novelist and columnist.

Biography

Kulin graduated in literature from the American College for Girls in Arnavutköy
Arnavutköy
Arnavutköy is a historic neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey, famous for its wooden Ottoman mansions and fish restaurants as well as the prestigious Robert College campus with its centennial buildings...

. She released a collection of short stories
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 titled Güneşe Dön Yüzünü in 1984. A short story from this called Gülizar was made into a film titled Kırık Bebek in 1986, for which she won a screenplay award from the Turkish culture ministry. Kulin worked as a screen writer, cinematographer and producer for many films, television series and advertisements. In 1986, she won the Best Cinematographer Award from the Theatre Writers association for her work in the television series Ayaşlı ve Kiracıları.

In 1996, she wrote a biography
Biography
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 of Münir Nureddin Selçuk titled Bir Tatlı Huzur. With a short story called Foto Sabah Resimleri she won the Haldun Taner
Haldun Taner
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 Short Story Award the same year and the Sait Faik Story Prize the next year. In 1997, she was chosen as the "Writer of the year" by the İstanbul Communication Faculty for her biographical novel
Biographical novel
The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional and usually entertaining account of a person's life. This kind of novel concentrates on the experiences a person had during his lifetime, the people he met and the incidents which occurred are detailed and sometimes...

  Adı Aylin, She won the same award the next year for her short story Geniş Zamanlar. In November 1999, she wrote a novel called Sevdalinka about the Bosnian Civil War and in 2000, a biographical novel called Füreyya. In June 2001, she put out a novel titled Köprü about drama in Turkey's eastern provinces and how they shaped the republic's early history.

In May 2002, Kulin wrote a novel titled Nefes Nefes'e about the Turkish diplomats who saved in the lives of Jews during the holocaust in World War 2.

She has married twice, her latest novels Hayat and Huzun describe her life with her spouses, Mehmet Sarper and Eren Kemahli. Both ended in divorce but she bore 4 sons from the marriages.

English language bibliography

Four of Kulin's novels and one short story collection have been published in English language
English language
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 translation.

Photo "Sabah" Pictures

Photo "Sabah" Pictures (Turkish
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 title: Foto Sabah Resimleri) is a 1998
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 collection of three inter-connected short stories by Turkish writer Ayşe Kulin, which was awarded the 1998 Haldun Taner
Haldun Taner
Haldun Taner is a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer. He was born on March 16, 1915 in Istanbul...

 Short Story Award, the 1999 Sait Faik Story Prize, and was republished in 2004
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 by Epsilon Yayınevi in English language
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 translation by Martina Keskintepe.

Last Train to Istanbul

Last Train to Istanbul (Turkish
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 title: Nefes Nefese) is a 2002
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 novel by Turkish writer Ayşe Kulin, which was republished in 2006
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 by Everest Yayınları in English language
English language
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 translation by John W. Baker.

Aylin

Aylin (Turkish
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 title: Adı: Aylin) is a 1997
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 novel by Turkish writer Ayşe Kulin, which was republished in 2007
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 by Remzi Kitabevi in English language
English language
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 translation by Dara Çolakoğlu.

Face to Face

Face to Face (Turkish
Turkish language
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 title: Bir Gün) is a 2005
2005 in literature
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 novel by Turkish writer Ayşe Kulin, which was republished in 2008
2008 in literature
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 by Everest Yayınları in English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 translation by John W. Baker.

Farewell

Farewell (Turkish
Turkish language
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 title: Veda) is a 2008
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 novel by Turkish writer Ayşe Kulin, which was republished in 2009
2009 in literature
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 by Everest Yayınları in English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 translation by Kenneth J. Dakan.

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