Nihan Kaya (born 1979) is a fiction writer and theorist. She is known for her publications on aesthetic theory and creativity as well as her novels and short stories. She currently teaches at
MEF University
MEF University is a non-profit private university in Istanbul, founded by the İbrahim Arıkan Education and Scientific Research Foundation. It opened in the academic year 2014–2015. It is the first university in the world to adopt the "flipp ...
Psychology department in Istanbul.
Nihan Kaya received the Writers Union of Turkey (Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği) Award for ''The Sanctuary'' in 2004.
Selected list of works
Non-fiction
* 2019 ''İyi Toplum Yoktur: Günlük Hayatta Toplumun Bireyi İstismar Biçimleri'' ()
* 2018 ''İyi Aile Yoktur'' ()
* 2013 ''Yazma Cesareti: Acının Yaratıcılığa Dönüşümü''
he Courage to Write: Converting Suffering to Creativity()
* 2011 ''Fildişi Kuyu: Psikanalitik Edebiyat Eleştirisi ve Kadın''
he Ivory Well: Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism and the Feminine() (Collection of academic papers published between 1998-2011)
* 2008 ''Compelled to Create: The Courage to Go Beyond. (In: Dreaming the Myth Onwards: Revisioning Jungian Therapy and Thought, edited by Lucy Huskinson)'' ()
Fiction
* 2017 ''Kırgınlık''
esentment()
* 2016 ''Kar ve İnci''
he Snow and the Pearl()
* 2012 ''Ama Sizden Değilim''
Am Not One of Us()
* 2008 ''Disparöni''
yspareunia()
* 2006 ''Buğu''
he Mist()
* 2004 ''Çatı Katı''
he Sanctuary)
* 2003 ''Gizli Özne''
he Hidden Self()
References
External links
Nihan Kaya web siteNihan Kaya. Görünendeki görünmeyenKırgın olmasaydın roman yazmaya ihtiyaç duymazdımNihan Kaya. Var olmak ve yaşamak birbirinden ayrı şeylerÇocukluk romantize edilmiş bir kavramNihan Kaya: Sevdiğim bütün edebiyatçılar iyi birer psikologİyi toplum dönüşebilen toplumdur
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1979 births
Living people
Alumni of King's College London
21st-century Turkish women writers