Ayfer Tunc Author

Ayfer Tunc, is a story writer and novelist who has been declared one of the most recent brilliant writers in Turkish literature. Tunc was born in the city of Adapazari in northwest Turkey in 1964. Tunc graduated from the School of Political Sciences at Istanbul University and started working as a journalist for widely circulated periodicals and daily newspapers in 1989. She also worked as editor-in-chief at one of Turkey's oldest and biggest publishing houses, Yapi Kredi Publishing House, from 1999 to 2004. Her first collection of short stories, titled Sakli, was published in 1989. It was followed by her debut novel, Kapak Kizi, in 1992. In addition to novels and short stories, Tunc also writes reports, radio plays and scripts for TV series. Her works have been translated into several languages and honored with the Yunus Nadi Short Story Prize (1989). Her book My Parents Will Visit You If You Aren't Busy: Our Life in the 70's, first published in 2001, won the International Balkanika Literary Award in 2003. Her books have been translated and published in China (Shanghai Literature) France (Galaade), Italy (Clandestine) and Sweden (Storge). -