Tuna Kiremitci

Who is Tuna Kiremitci?

Tuna Kiremitci is a contemporary Turkish writer.

His first poems were published in the magazine Varlık during his Galatasaray High School years. His book entitled Ayabakanlar that won him the "Yasar Nabi Nayır" Award for Poetry met his readers in 1994. In 1997 he shared the "Erguvan Balkan Poetry Award with the Bosnian poet Izet Sarajlić. This was followed by his second book of poems Akademi in 1998.

Tuna Kiremitci's first novel Git Kendini Cok Sevdirmeden came out in 2002 and excited great interest and was acknowledged as one of the most important literary events of that year. His second novel Bu Iste Bir Yalnizlik Var and Bazı Siirler Bazı Sarkilar a collection of his poems were published in 2003. His novels Yolda Uc Kisi and Dualar Kalicidir have met with a wide audience.

His books that on the whole treat the tragedies of ordinary people, the impasse of relationships between men and women in today's Turkish society and the melancholy of getting old with an expression that is mournful but that evokes a smile here and there, have been appraised by Professor Gursel Aytac as being examples in Turkish literature of "romantic irony".