Nazan Bekiroğlu (born 3 May 1957) is a Turkish novelist and academician.

Biography

She was born on May 3, 1957, in

Trabzon Trabzon (; Ancient Greek: Tραπεζοῦς (''Trapezous''), Ophitic Pontic Greek: Τραπεζούντα (''Trapezounta''); Georgian: ტრაპიზონი (''Trapizoni'')), historically known as Trebizond in English, is a city on the B ...

. She was the youngest of three children born to a family with an interest in literature. Her father was the owner of a local newspaper called "Target" and was interested in Ottoman history as well as literature. Her father passed away when she was 14 years old. Her father became the hero of the story "Inside a Pain". After completing her primary and secondary education in Trabzon, she went to Erzurum and graduated from Atatürk University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Turkish Language and Literature (1979). During her student years, she was in pursuit of folk literature and Central Asian aesthetics. She reflected this to some extent in her early stories. (Miss Air is Dead). She received encouragement and support from her teacher Orhan Okay in the development of both her artistic and academic personality. After working as a high school teacher for four years, she entered Karadeniz Technical University Fatih Education Faculty Turkish Language and Literature Education Department as a lecturer (1985). She completed her doctorate on Technical Analysis of

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's Novels, which she continued under the direction of Orhan Okay, in 1987. She started working as a lecturer in the same department. She became an associate professor with her work on the poet Nigar Hanım (1995). She published her first book, Nun Tales, in 1997. Nazan Bekiroğlu, who has been working as a faculty member in the Turkish education department opened at Karadeniz Technical University since 1998, became a professor on May 4, 2001. Numerous scientific articles, essays and stories have been published in various journals. She is the mother of two children. She has been publishing stories, essays, novels and reviews since 1997. In 2006, she received the Turkish Writers Union's story award with her story Cam Irmağı, Taş Gemi.

Life story in her own words

Published books

* Nun Masalları (Stories of

Nun A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.''The Oxford English Dictionary'', vol. X, page 599. The term is o ...

) (Story, Dergâh, 1997;

Edition, 2007) * Şair Nigar Hanım (Ms. Nigar the Poet) ( Examination, İletişim, 1998) *

( Ph.D. thesis, Şule, 1999) * Mor Mürekkep (Purple Ink) (

Essay An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...

, İyiadam, 1999) * Yusuf İle Züleyha / Kalbin Üzerine Titreyen Hüzün (

Yusuf and Zulaikha "Yusuf and Zulaikha" (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) refers to a medieval Islamic version of the story of the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife which has been for centuries in the Muslim world, and is found in many langu ...

/ Aflutter Gloom on the Heart) ( Orientel Mesnevî, Timaş, 2000) * Mavi Lâle, Yitik Lâle (Blue Tulip, Lost Tulip) (

, İyiadam Publication, 2001) * İsimle Ateş Arasında (Between Name and Fire) (

Novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself ...

, Timaş, 2002) * Cümle Kapısı (Sentence Door)(

, Timaş, 2004)(TYB Essay Award 2003) * Cam Irmağı Taş Gemi (Glass River, Lapidary Ship) (Story, Timaş, 2006) (TYB Story Award 2006) * Lâ: Sonsuzluk Hecesi (Lâ: Syllable of Infinity) (

- Mesnevî, 2008) * Yol Hali (The Status of Road) (Novel, Timaş, 2010) * Nar Ağacı (Pomegranate Tree) (Novel, Timaş, 2012) * Mimoza Sürgünü(Exile of Mimosa) (Essay, Timaş, 2013) * Kelime Defteri (The Notebook of Words) (Essay, Timaş, 2014) * Mücellâ (Novel, Timaş, 2015) * Karınca İzleri - Hikmet Aksoy Kitabı (The Marks of Ants - A book of Hikmet Aksoy) (Timaş, 2015)

References

External links

Official website
(in Turkish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bekiroglu, Nazan 1957 births Turkish novelists Turkish historical novelists Turkish women novelists Living people Women historical novelists