Istanbul Noir - Mustafa Ziyalan [105]
JESSICA LUTZ was born in the Netherlands in 1962 and moved to Istanbul in 1989. She works as a reporter for various Dutch media as well as CBS radio, U.S. News and World Report, and BBC radio. She has written two books: De Gouden Appel (2002), about modern Turkey, and Gezichten van Istanbul (2008), about Istanbul. A short story of hers was published in Tales from the Expat Harem (2005).
BARI MÜSTECAPLIOLU was born in 1977 in zmit-Kocaeli. He is the author of Turkey’s first fantasy fiction series, the four-volume The Legends of Perg, as well as the novel akird. His most recent work is an ongoing series of illustrated children’s books and he is currently writing a novel that will be published in 2009. Müstecaplıolu has also been working as a human-resources specialist in various firms for the past eight years.
ALGAN SEZGNTÜRED was born in 1968 and works as an author, graphic designer, painter, and translator. He has two published detective novels, Katilin eyi (2006) and Katilin Meselesi (2007). Both novels feature the handsome, charming knucklehead Vedat and his partner, short, squat Tefo, the brains of the crime-busting duo.
AMY SPANGLER is a native of small-town Ohio and moved to Istanbul upon graduation from college in 1999. She still lives in the elusive and amorphous Istanbul, where she works as translator, agent, and editor. She is the translator of Asli Erdogan’s novel The City in Crimson Cloak (Soft Skull, 2007) and coowner of AnatoliaLit Literary and Copyright Agency (www.anatolialit.com).
FERYAL TLMAÇ was born in 1969, in Adana, Turkey and studied Economics at Boaziçi University. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous literary magazines in Turkey. She is the author of the story collection Mevt Tek Hecelik Uyku (Okuyan Us Publishing, 2007) and won the Altkitap Short Story Prize in 2006. She lives in Istanbul.
SADIK YEMN was born in Istanbul and has resided in Amsterdam since 1975. His writing combines myriad genres and styles: detective fiction, drama, paranormal, horror, science fiction, metaphysics, and humor. He is the author of nine novels published in Turkish, as well as a variety of short stories, essays, plays, and film scripts.
MUSTAFA ZYALAN was born on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. He worked as a general doctor and coroner in a rural Anatolian village and now lives and practices psychiatry in New York. He has worked with torture victims, prison inmates, delinquent children, pathological gamblers, and people with AIDS. His poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in many literary periodicals, anthologies (most recently in New European Poets from Graywolf Press), and books.
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