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Place of Birth: Erzincan, Turkey
About Cihan Aktas
- Cihan Aktas (born January 15, 1960) (Turkish: Cihan Aktas) is an award-winning Turkish writer, researcher and journalist.
- She is the sister of Turkish poet and writer Umit Aktas.Best known for her short story collections, Aktas has published more than forty books of fiction and non-fiction, including her best seller novel Write Long Letters To Me and her well-researched commentary book The Poetry of the East : Iranian Cinema which is an academic favorite on the subject.
- She was a political newspaper columnist in 1980's, focusing her research papers and articles on women who experienced a traumatic social transformation in Turkey; and has published several books on topics such as exploitation of women, gender and identity politics, and hijab in public space, as a hijabi woman herself.Aktas has been described as a "strong feminist in a minimalist sense" and her literary style as "impressionist fiction".
- Her female characters "do not give concessions on their identity" and "usually has reached the climax of a longlasting problem." She is married with two children and currently lives in Istanbul.
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