who am i?
born in leverkusen in 1974, aslı tohumcu studied english language and literature. her first book “abis” (abyss; a collection of short stories about violence) was published in 2003.
her second book “yok bana sensiz hayat” (no life without you; a novella about love and death) was published in 2006 and translated into german, bulgarian, albanian and arabic.
she spent almost a year in the hague (netherlands) as a guest author and wrote the life stories of turkish immigrants for a daily newspaper called ad/haagsche courant. the collection of these articles was published in dutch under the title “over welk turkije heeft u het?” (which turkey are you talking about?) in 2008.
her fourth book “şeytan geçti” (lacuna) is a collection of short stories concerning violence against women, was published by in march, 2010.
in her last novel “taş uykusu” (deep sleep), she tried to make a panoramic picture of life and people in turkey. this novel was published in december 2010.
(please contact nermin mollaoğlu – kalem literary agency, for copyright issues).
