Latife Tekin is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. She was born in 1957 in Kayseri

Kayseri

Kayseri is a large and industrialized city in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is the seat of Kayseri Province. The city of Kayseri, as defined by the boundaries of Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality, is structurally composed of five metropolitan districts, the two core districts of Kocasinan and...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. She continued her education in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

. In 1983, her famous novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (Dear Shameless Death) was published. The magic realism

Magic realism

Magic realism or magical realism is an aesthetic style or genre of fiction in which magical elements blend with the real world. The story explains these magical elements as real occurrences, presented in a straightforward manner that places the "real" and the "fantastic" in the same stream of...

 in the book was drawn from the Anatolian folklore and traditions. Latife Tekin's childhood in Kayseri, a multicultural city at a central point in Anatolia, influenced both her first book and the others in this aspect.

Novels

• Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (Dear Shameless Death) (1983)
• Berci Kristin Çöp Masalları (1984)
• Gece Dersleri (1986)
• Buzdan Kılıçlar (1989)
• Aşk İşaretleri (1995)
• Ormanda Ölüm Yokmuş (2001)
• Unutma Bahçesi (2004)
• Muinar (2006)

External links

• Encyclopedia of Turkish Authors—a very comprehensive encyclopedia from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism
• Contemporary Turkish Literature—an excellent and well-translated selection of contemporary Turkish literature hosted by Boğaziçi University
  Bogaziçi University
  Boğaziçi University is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has five faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees...
  
   in Istanbul
  Istanbul
  Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
  
  
• Turkish Poetry in Translation—a website with a good selection of both contemporary and somewhat older Turkish poems
• Turkish Cultural Foundation—a website with a great deal of information on a number of Turkish authors and literary genres
• Selected Literatures and Authors Page: Turkish Literature—a website with a number of Turkish literature-related links
• http://www.istanbultelifofisi.com/writer_detail.asp?ID=34