She has won various prestigious awards of Turkish literary circles.
She also publishes essays of literary criticism.
Especially in her essays she is an advocate of women's rights and secular society. Up to now she has published six novels, eight collections of short stories, and seven collections of essays. A modernist in her themes and messages, she likes to experiment with literary genres, bordering on postmodernist styles. Four more short story collections were published up to 1995, when her first and acclaimed novel Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain)-outwardly a family history-in which she discusses the endeavour and the attainments of the Republican revolution, as well as its shortcomings from the standpoints of women, appeared. Her first short story collection Kadınlar da Vardır (Women also Exist) appeared in 1983 after receiving the "Akademi Kitabevi" award. She later declared that during that year she thought a lot about the complexities of the positions of women in Western and Middle Eastern societies respectively.Įrendiz Atasü started writing in 1972 in London, but was in no hurry of publishing. The year she spent at London University in the early 1970s as a British Council scholar was crucial in the process of her transformation into a literary figure. Since then she has been a freelance writer. JSTOR ( June 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įrendiz Atasü (born 1947) is a Turkish feminist author, notable for her novels, short stories and essays also a previous academic.īorn in Ankara in 1947, as the only child of mathematician Faik Sayron and English literature instructor Hadiye Sayron, she was educated in Ankara College and the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara University, where she continued as a doctorate student (ph.D in 1974) and subsequently became a professor of pharmacognosy (1988), and taught until her early retirement in 1997.
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