Latife Tekin

Latife Tekin was born in 1957 in a village in the Bünyan district, in Kayseri province. In 1966 her family moved to Istanbul, to Beşiktaş, where she finished girls' high school. She worked for a time at the Istanbul telephone directorate and, according to the Humanities Institute, was active in left-wing groups before the 1980 coup d'état. Her first novel appeared in 1983. Her books have been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Persian and Dutch, and in 2019 she received the Erdal Öz Prize.

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• NovelDear Shameless DeathSevgili Arsız ÖlümLatife Tekin · 1983Literature