Mustafa Balel

Who is Mustafa Balel?

Mustafa Balel, Turkish short story writer and novelist.

After he graduated from Ankara Gazi Institute of Education, Department of French philology, he did his master's at the University of Poitiers in France. Returned to Turkey, he worked as a teacher at high schools in Ardahan, Sivas and Istanbul, and at the Atatürk Education Institute. He was a member of publication committee of Larousse Encyclopedia; Axis Encyclopedia and published a story journal Öykü.

He had his stories, articles and translations published in the journals and in publications published in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, France, Brazil and Iran. He translated several novels and short stories of the French language

In his stories, he attracted attention with his ability to combine contemporary story technique with his mastery of traditional narration along with a successful psychological analysis. In his works, one notes that he indicates a structure conventionally matriarchal exist surreptitiously in a strictly patriarchal known society.