Nazan Bekiroğlu

Nazan Bekiroğlu
Born	Nazan Bekiroğlu 3/5/1957 Trabzon, Turkey
Occupation	Novelist

Nazan Bekiroğlu is a Turkish novelist.

Biography

She was born in Trabzon in 1957. After she had finished her first education in the same city, she graduated from Atatürk University, the faculty of literature, the department of Turkish language and literature (1979). She work as a teacher during four years. She was assigned as an assistant at Karadeniz Technical University, Fatih Education Faculty, Turkish language and literature department (1985). She completed her PhD in analysis of the novels of Halide Edip Adıvar in technical aspects, counseling by Orhan Okay (1987). She started working as a lecturer at the same department. She became assistant professor with the study about Şair Nigar Hanım (1995). Nazan Bekiroğlu, who has work as a lecturer at Turkish department that was opened at the same faculty in 1998, became professor on 4 May 2001. She has lots of article, essay and story which were published various magazines.

Her life story with her words

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She has always lived in this city except her four-year university life. Cloud. Sea. Rain. She studied Turkish language and literature in Erzurum. Snow. Wind. Lowland. Phd with Halide Edip, Assistant Professor with Nigar Hanım. Professor in KTÜ Fatih Education Faculty recently. At seashore. Mother with two sisters. Her apparent life is this.

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Published books

• Nun Masalları (Stories of Nun ) (Story, Dergâh, 1997; Nun Edition,2007)
• Şair Nigar Hanım (Ms. Poem Nigar) (Examination, İletişim, 1998)
• Halide Edip Adıvar (Examination, Şule, 1999)
• Mor Mürekkep (Purple Ink) (Essay, İyiadam, 1999)
• Yusuf İle Züleyha / Kalbin Üzerine Titreyen Hüzün (Yusuf and Zulaikha / Aflutter Gloom on the Heart) (Oriantel Mesnevî, Timaş, 2000)
• Mavi Lâle, Yitik Lâle (Blue Tulip, Lost Tulip) (Essay, İyiadam Publication, 2001)
• İsimle Ateş Arasında (Between Name and Fire) (Novel, Timaş, 2002)
• Cümle Kapısı (Sentence Door)(Essay, Timaş, 2004)(TYB Essay Award 2003)
• Cam Irmağı Taş Gemi (Glass River, Lapidary Ship) (Story, Timaş, 2006) (TYB Story Award 2006)
• Lâ: Sonsuzluk Hecesi (Lâ: Syllable of Infinity) (Novel-Mesnevî, 2008)

External links

• nazanbekiroglu.org (Non-official Turkish Page)

Persondata
Name	Bekiroglu, Nazan
Alternative names
Short description	Turkish novelist
Date of birth	1957
Place of birth	Trabzon, Turkey
Date of death
Place of death