Buket Uzuner

Who is Buket Uzuner?

Buket Uzuner is a Turkish writer, author of novels, short stories and travelogues. Travel Literature 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, Bulgarian.

Buket Uzuner travels as "solo woman backpacker" since 1980'ies 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 was published in 1988 and sold more than 300.000 copies. Uzuner wrote two more travel books as 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

In 2013 her novel Istanbulians is published in USA by Dalkey Archieve with the title of I am Istanbul translated into English by Kenneth J. Dakan She is also celebrating in 2013 the 22nd year's anniversary of her first novel Two Green Otters, Mothers, Fathers, Lovers and All The Others translated by Alex Dawewith its 50th edition which sold over 1 million copies in Turkey and s already a contemporary classic.