Ece Temelkuran, a poet and journalist, was born in Turkey in 1973. She has published eight books of poetry, prose, and nonfiction. Her collections of poetry and prose include All Women Are Confused (Iletişim, 1993), Book of the Inside (Everest, 2002) and Book of the Edge (Everest, 2002). Her investigative journalism books broach subjects that are highly controversial in Turkey, such as Kurdish and Armenian issues, the women’s movement, and political prisoners. These include My Son, My Daughter, My State—The Mothers Of Political Detainees, from Their Homes to the Streets (Metis, 1997), We Are Having A Revolution Here, Senorita! (Everest, 2006) and, most recently, The Deep Mountain (Everest, 2008), which investigates Turkish-Armenian history and relations from the point of view of Armenians.
Ece Temelkuran is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including Germany’s TurkishJournalist of the Year Award (1996); the Diyarbakir Democratic Platform’s Peace, Friendship, and Democracy Award (2006); the Human Rights Foundation’s Ayşenur Zarakol Freedom of Thought Award (2008). In 2008, she was Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
She currently writes as a columnist for Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper, and is working on her first novel.
