Latife Tekin

Latife Tekin
Born	1957 Kayseri, Turkey
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Turkish
Period	1983-present
Genre	Novel
Literary movement	Magic realism

Latife Tekin is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. She was born in 1957 in Kayseri, Turkey. She continued her education in Istanbul. In 1983, her famous novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (Dear Shameless Death) was published. The magic realism 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.

Works

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)

Plays/Scripts

• Bir Yudum Sevgi (1984)

Memoirs

• Gümüşlük Akademisi (1997)

See also

• Turkish literature
• List of postmodern authors

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 in Istanbul
• 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
• Works by Latife Tekin at Open Library
• http://www.istanbultelifofisi.com/writer_detail.asp?ID=34