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B O O K S F R O M T U R K E Y
A Y F E R T U N Ç
Ayfer Tunç, is a story writer and novelist who has been declared one of the most
recent brilliant writers in Turkish literature. Her first short story book Saklı (Hidden
1989 Yunus Nadi Short Story Award) has been critically acclaimed both by literary
circles as well as by readers. Tunç graduated from the School of Political Sciences
at Istanbul University and started working as a journalist for highly circulated
periodicals and daily newspapers in 1989. She worked as editor-in-chief at Yapı
Kredi Publishing House from 1999 to 2004. Tunç writes about the virtues of being
a lonely city dweller and a human being, and with deep insight she describes the
suffering it also brings. Her book Bir Maniniz Yoksa Annemler Size Gelecek (My
Parents Will Visit You If You Aren’t Occupied: Our Life in the ‘70s) first published in
2001, won the International Balkanika Literary Award in 2003 and was translated
into six Balkan languages. The same year her screenplay Havada Bulut (Cloud in the
Sky) inspired by Sait Faik’s short stories, was filmed and televised.
WORKS: Saklı (Hidden), Kapak Kızı (Cover Girl), İkiyüzlü Cinsellik (Hypocritical
Sexuality), Mağara Arkadaşları (Cave Friends), Aziz Bey Hadisesi (Aziz Bey
Incident), Bir Maniniz Yoksa Annemler Size Gelecek (My Parents Will Visit You If
You Aren’t Occupied), Ömür Diyorlar Buna (If They Call This Life) Belki Varmış Belki
Yokmuş (Maybe It Exists, Maybe It Doesn’t).
Foreign Rights: Aziz Bey Hadisesi /The Mr. Aziz Phenomenon (Fan Noli, Albanian);
Bir Maniniz Yoksa Annemler Size Gelecek / My Parents Will Visit You If You Aren’t
Occupied (Cadmus, Syria)
AZİZ BEY HADİSESİ
AZİZ BEY INCIDENT
Fan Noli, Albania, 2008
172 pages, Short Story
Translated by Orkida Muça
ISBN: 9789994352371
www.kalemagency.com
Aziz Bey is the most genuine and saddest
hero of Ayfer Tunç’s fictional world;
a world usually portraying stories of
scarred lives, lives that are wasted
because of human frailties and mistakes.
Some readers are struck by the tangible
presence of such a character when
reading the story of Aziz Bey.