Author • Turkish literature

Fadime Uslu

She was born in Adana in 1978. After graduating from Art History Department of Ege University, she studied at Primary School Teaching Department of Dokuz Eylül University. She worked as an editor. Her first short stories were published in literary magazine named Sözcükler. Her first book Büyük Kızlar Ağlamaz was published in 2010. Her first children’s book Sokağın Kuyruğu was published in the following year. In 2011, she has been awarded with Yunus Nadi Story Award with her story named Gölgede Yaşamak. Her two children’s books My Uncle Out of the Blue (Çat Kapı Dayım, 2012) and The Runaway Heroes (Kaçak Kahramanlar, 2014) were published by Günışığı Kitaplığı. Uslu also writes articles about books for literary magazines; she supports young story writers. Uslu lives in Ankara with her husband and daughter.