Güneş Saygılı'nın Gerçek Yaşamı by Erendiz Atasü

Kavram ve Slogan (Concept and Slogan) essays 2004.İmgelerin İzi (Imprints of Images) essays 2003.Bir Yaşdönümü Rüyası (A Midlife Dream) novel 2002.Kadınlığım, Yazarlığım, Yurdum (My Womanhood, Authorship and My Country) essays, 2000.Benim Yazarlarım (My Writers) literary criticism 1999.Gençliğin O yakıcı Mevsimi (That Scorching Season of Youth) novel 1999.Taş Üstüne Gül Oyması (Roses Engraved in Marble) short stories 1997.Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain) novel 1995.Onunla Güzeldim (Beautiful with Him) short stories 1991.Dullara Yas Yakışır (Mourning Becomes the Widow) short stories 1988.Lanetliler (The Damned) short stories 1985.Kadınlar da Vardır (Women also Exist) short stories 1983.She has won various prestigious awards of Turkish literary circles. She also publishes essays of literary criticism. Especially in her essays she is an advocate of women's rights and secular society. Up to now she has published six novels, eight collections of short stories, and seven collections of essays. A modernist in her themes and messages, she likes to experiment with literary genres, bordering on postmodernist styles.

Four more short story collections were published up to 1995, when her first and acclaimed novel Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain)-outwardly a family history-in which she discusses the endeavour and the attainments of the Republican revolution, as well as its shortcomings from the standpoints of women, appeared. Her first short story collection Kadınlar da Vardır (Women also Exist) appeared in 1983 after receiving the 'Akademi Kitabevi' award. Literary careerĮrendiz Atasü started writing in 1972 in London, but was in no hurry of publishing. She later declared that during that year she thought a lot about the complexities of the positions of women in Western and Middle Eastern societies respectively. The year she spent at London University in the early 1970s as a British Council scholar was crucial in the process of her transformation into a literary figure. Since then she has been a freelance writer. Born in Ankara in 1947, as the only child of mathematician Faik Sayron and English literature instructor Hadiye Sayron, she was educated in Ankara College and the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara University, where she continued as a doctorate student (ph.D in 1974) and subsequently became a professor of pharmacognosy (1988), and taught until her early retirement in 1997.

Güneş Saygılı'nın Gerçek Yaşamı by Erendiz Atasü