Azra "''Akilah''" Kohen (born 1979) is a Turkish record-breaking author and psychologist. After releasing her first novel, ''Fi'', under the name Akilah, she started to release her subsequent novels, ''Çi'' and ''Pi'' under the name Azra Kohen. She later published best-selling novels Aeden in 2017 and Gör Beni in 2019. All of her books are still bestsellers (2022) in Turkey and she is the first Turkish novelist to reach the top 6 in the Italian bestselling list with her first 3 books called trilogy of Phi.
Early life and career
Azra Kohen was born as "Azra Sarızeybek" in 1979 in
İzmir
İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...
. She graduated from the Faculty of Communication, Radio, Television and Cinema, at
Istanbul University. Azra Kohen later studied Economics at
Ottawa University
Ottawa University (OU) is a private Baptist university with its main campus in Ottawa, Kansas, a second residential campus in Surprise, Arizona, and adult campuses in the Kansas City, Phoenix and Milwaukee metropolitan areas. It was founded in ...
in Canada. She has her undergraduate Honours degree in Psychology by completing a psychology conversion degree and earned her master's degree in Psychology from the
University of Liverpool
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by graduating with high honors as shown in her diploma. She said that her main motivation for educating herself was to "learn more about this world". She speaks English and Italian.
Her trilogy narrative series ''Fi'', ''Çi'' and ''Pi'' soon became popular in the form of an Internet series called ''
Fi''.
Azra Kohen also announced that she would write a book about what happened to her during the production process of ''Fi''. As of the current moment (August 2023), she is the only Turkish author with all five of her written books Fi, Çi, Pi, Aeden, Gör Beni still present in the top 10 list. Kohen's upcoming books will be Nakar and Dinle Beni.
Personal life
She married Sadok Kohen in 2001
and the couple's son was born in 2009. She has not expressed any political opinions throughout her career. Kohen explained in an interview that she was not a vegetarian, but she was trying to be one.
Awards
* Elele Avon Author of the Year Award (2018)
* Işık Association The Best Author of the Year (2019)
* Hacettepe University The Best Author of the Year (2020)
Works
* ''Fi''
* ''Çi''
* ''Pi''
* ''Aeden''
* ''Gör Beni''
References
External links
Official websiteInterview with Ayşe Arman
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21st-century Turkish writers
1979 births
Psychological fiction writers
Living people
Writers from İzmir
Istanbul University alumni
Alumni of the University of Liverpool