Buket Uzuner

Buket Uzuner is a Turkish novelist, short-story writer and travel writer, born in Ankara in 1955. She trained as a biologist and worked in environmental science, lecturing in Turkey, Norway, the United States and Finland before writing full time.

Her novels include Two Green Otters (1991), The Sound of Fishsteps (1993), Mediterranean Waltz (1997), The Long White Cloud – Gallipoli (2001) and Istanbullu (2007), together with the Adventures of Misfit Daphne Shaman sequence, which opened with Water (2012) and continued with Earth (2015).

She won the Yunus Nadi Prize in 1993 for The Sound of Fishsteps and the Istanbul University Novel Prize in 1998 for Mediterranean Waltz, and was made an honorary member of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1996.