Buket Uzuner is a Turkish writer, author of novels, short stories and travelogues. She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages, including Spanish, English, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Korean, and Bulgarian. Buket Uzuner travels as a "solo woman backpacker" since the 1980s including "inter-rail" tours in Europe and in three other continents while keep writing her travel memoirs. Her first travelogue, The Travel Notes of A Brunette sold more than 300,000 copies. Uzuner wrote two more travel books: Travel Notes of An Urban Romantic which questions the meaning of exoticism and New York Logbook, which are all collected lately in Travel Library of Buket Uzuner. Her first novel, İki Yeşil Susamuru, Anneleri, Babaları, Sevgilileri ve Diğerleri reached its 50th edition in 2013, and has sold over one million copies. Uzuner's books have been on the Turkish best-seller lists since 1992. They are taught in a number of Turkish universities and high schools. Her novel The Sound of Fishsteps, was awarded Turkey's Yunus Nadi Prize, while her novel Mediterranean Waltz was named novel of the year by the University of Istanbul. She was made an honorary member of the International Writing Program, IWP of University of Iowa in 1996. She was also honored with a certificate of appreciation from the Senate of Middle East Technical University; METU in 2004. She has referred to Turkish writers Attilâ İlhan and Sevgi Soysal, as well as Miguel de Cervantes, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Doris Lessing, as major influences on her work.
Five of Uzuner's novels and one short story collection have been published in English language translation.
Mediterranean Waltz
Mediterranean Waltz is a 1997 novel by Turkish writer Buket Uzuner, which was awarded the 1998 Novel Prize of Istanbul University and was republished in 2000 by Remzi Kitabevi in English language translation by Pelin Ariner.
A 2001 short story collection by Turkish writer Buket Uzuner published by Milet Books, in dual Turkish and English language translation by Pelin Ariner, as part of its series of Turkish-English Short Story Collections. The publisher states that the author, "takes us into the memories and dreams of children and adults, and explores shared history, love and attachments – to family, lovers and places." Whilst a review in Writing in Education concludes that the author, "in The Other Twin notably, is subtle, penetrating about human nature, and well able to project a powerful maxim or a sarcastic image."
The Sound of Fishsteps is a 1993 novel by Turkish writer Buket Uzuner, which was awarded the 1993 Yunus Nadi Novel Prize and was republished in 2002 by Remzi Kitabevi in English language translation by Pelin Ariner.
The Long White Cloud - Galipoli is a 2001 novel by Turkish writer Buket Uzuner, which was a national bestseller and was republished in 2002 by Remzi Kitabevi in English language translation by Pelin Ariner.
Editions
Istanbullu
Istanbullu is a 2007 novel by Turkish writer Buket Uzuner, which was republished in 2008 by Everest Yayınlari in English language translation by Kenneth Dakan.
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On-line translations
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Novels
Two Green Otters, Their Mothers, Their Fathers, Their Lovers, and the Others — 1991
The Sound of Fishsteps — 1993
Mediterranean Waltz — 1997
Long White Cloud-Gallipoli — 2001
Istanbullites — 2007
WATER: The Adventures of Misfit Daphne Shaman — 1st Book
EARTH: The Adventures of Misfit Daphne Shaman — 2nd book
