İpek Ongun


İpek Ongun is a female Turkish novelist.
She was born in Ankara on 7 January 1942 to Nusret, an officer in Turkish Army and Fatma, a literature teacher. After graduating from Arnavutköy American High School for Girls in 1961, she took courses on literary criticism in New York, United States. She began her literary career by writing for Doğan Kardeş, a children's periodical in İstanbul. She also served for Time magazine and Life magazine. As a novelist, she wrote mainly for the juveniles. In 1991, she was awarded a "Golden Book" by the Turkish trade fair organizer TÜYAP. In 1998, she was named as the "Most Successful Author". She is married and mother of two. Currently she is living in Mersin, her husband's home city.

Novels

Her novels are the following: