Murat Gülsoy

Who is Murat Gülsoy?

Murat Gülsoy' is a Turkish writer. He started his literary career as a publisher and a writer of the bimonthly magazine Hayalet Gemi in 1992. His works explore the metafictive potential of postmodern self-consciousness with ‘page turning’ plots. He also produced interactive hypertext works on internet exploring new ways of narrative. Gülsoy has published 12 books in Turkey so far. Besides short stories, he has four novels addressing modern masters Kafka, Borges, Eco, Laurence Stern, Fowles and Orhan Pamuk. He is the recipient of some of the most prestigious national literary awards. Besides being a writer, he also works as an engineer for biomedical science, and a teacher for creative writing. He is the head of the editorial board of Bogazici University Press. Stehlen Sie dieses Buch is the first book to be translated into German. His novels are published in Macedonian, Arabics, Bulgarian and Chinese; and will be published in Rumenian, and Albanian soon. His 2000 Sait Faik Award winning book "Bu Kitabı Çalın" ironically "borrows" its name from Abbie Hoffman's 1971 book "Steal This Book" and it is referred in the book as a postmodern parody.