Seza Kutlar Aksoy

Seza Kutlar Aksoy (born 1945) is an award-winning Turkish children's author residing in Istanbul, Turkey. She is the younger sister of writer Onat Kutlar.

Biography

She was born in Gaziantep, Turkey. Since 1980, she writes novels, stories and tales for children and youth in Turkish.

She is a member of the Turkish section of the International P.E.N., TYS (Turkish Writers' Union), and is active at the administrative board of the Turkish Association of Children and Youth Publications.

Seza Kutlar Aksoy published her short stories in children’s literature magazines including Redmouse and popular children’s magazine Milliyet Kids. Her radio play, with the title ‘Adventures of Memo’ was broadcasted in 10 sections in the Voice of Turkey, Foreign Broadcast of Turkish Radio and Television, TRT. One of her stories, Bluebird, was adapted and staged by Tiyatroom Group. Aksoy conducts regular literary sessions with children in schools on reading stories, dramatization and thinking about stories, students' own life or about life itself.

Bibliography

Pre-school

*Nil soru soruyor, Nellie Poses Questions (About a little girl who questions everything.)
*Uyku agaci, The Slumber Tree

chool-age

*Büyülü Bahçe, Enchanted Garden (Stories)
*Küçük Prenses ve Kardelen, Little Princess and the Snowdrop (Stories)
*Tomurcuk ve Pembe Kedi, Rosie and The Pink Cat (Rosie’s fantastic adventure with the talking, pedant Pink Cat in the country of her dreams)
*Tomurcuk ve Pembe Kedi Altın Peşinde, Rosie and the Pink Cat running after Gold.
*Nun Gelince, When Nun Comes (The adventures of a little man Nun, from Tavtav planet and a stubborn girl, Cansu...)
*Güvercin’in Saati, The Watch Of Guvercin (The armwatch is run by the energy of clever Guvercin’s brain.)
*Şişko Patates, Fat Potato (The story of a little girl who discovers her creative powers.)
*Akıllı Anka, Clever Phoenix (A novel about the friendship between Turkish and German kids in Germany and the third generation Turkish children’s problems)
*Güneşe Köprü, A Bridge to the Sun (Stories)

Youth

*Ask Kalir, Love Remains (The adventures of students from Germany and Britain who come to Turkey with an exchange programme and discover love and friendship). Published within the PEACH (Publications on Europe for Adults and Children Through History) project supported by the European Commission's, Horizons Program.

Awards

Aksoy won following prizes in children's literature:
*Sıtkı Dost Awards (1991), mention.
*Turkish Redmouse Awards, Grand Award (1992).
*Tudem Awards, Grand Award (2007).

About

*Seza Kutlar Aksoy - [http://www.turizm.gov.tr/EN/BelgeGoster.aspx?17A16AE30572D313FFB2CB2AD591CE262785E52167258498]