Murat Gülsoy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Murat Gülsoy

Turkish writer

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1967

Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey

Profession: writer, author

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Murat Gülsoy

  • Murat Gülsoy (born 1967) is a Turkish writer.
  • He started his literary career as a publisher and a writer of the bimonthly magazine Hayalet Gemi (Ghost Ship) 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 18 books in Turkey so far.
  • Besides short stories, he has eight novels addressing modern masters Kafka, Borges, Eco, Laurence Sterne, Fowles and Orhan Pamuk.
  • He is the recipient of some of the most prestigious national literary awards.
  • He conducts creative writing workshops since 2004.
  • Besides being a writer, he is also a professor with Bogazici University at Institute of Biomedical Engineering.
  • He is the head of the editorial board of Bogazici University Press and director of Bogazici University Nazim Hikmet Culture and Art Research Center.
  • Stehlen Sie dieses Buch is his first book to be translated into German (Literaturca Verlag).
  • His novels are published in English, Macedonian, Arabics, Bulgarian, Albanian and Chinese.
  • His 2000 Sait Faik Award-winning book "Bu Kitabi Çalin" (Steal This Book) "borrows" (or steals) its name from Abbie Hoffman's 1971 book "Steal This Book" and it is referred in the book as a postmodern parody.

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