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

Biography

She was born on May 3, 1957, in

Trabzon Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. The city was founded in 756 BC as "Trapezous" by colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid E ...

. 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 Atatürk University () is a public land-grant research university established in 1957 in Erzurum, Turkey, in collaboration with the University of Nebraska. The university comprises 23 faculties, 18 colleges, 8 institutes, and 30 research cente ...

, 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 and contemplation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.''The Oxford English Dictionary'', vol. X, page 5 ...

) (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 (message), letter, a term paper, paper, an article (publishing), article, a pamphlet, and a s ...

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

Yusuf and Zulaikha ''Yusuf and Zulaikha'' (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) is a title given to many tellings in the Muslim world of the story of the relationship between the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife. Developed primarily from the a ...

/ 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 an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ...

, 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