Author • Turkish literature

Müge İplikçi

Müge İplikçi, was born in 1966 in İstanbul. She graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature at İstanbul University. Known for her short stories and novels exploring women’s position and relationships in contemporary society, İplikçi’s works have been translated into several languages. İplikçi has won various prestigious awards like Yaşar Nabi Nayır Youth Awards (first place in 1996) and Haldun Taner Story Awards (third place in 1997). In 2010, she wrote her first young adult novel False Witness (Yalancı Şahit) for the “Bridge Books” collection of Günışığı Kitaplığı. And in the first year of printing, the book has won the special jury award of IBBY as Turkey’s best young adult novel of the year. As part of a series on the history of İstanbul’s neighborhoods, she turned her childhood memories into a book titled Koşuyolu: Dünyalar Kadar (2010). Following her first children’s book Flying Tuesday (Uçan Salı, 2010), she wrote A Strange Voyage (Acayip Bir Deniz Yolculuğu, 2012), inspired by the replica of an ancient boat named Kibele and its sailing adventure in Mediterranean Sea. With The Coal Black Child (Kömür Karası Çocuk, 2014), she addressed migration from a child’s perspective. Her young adult novel Hide and Seek (Saklambaç, 2013), published by ON8, was followed by her novel Babamın Ardından (2015) and her children’s novel My Charming Ice Cream (Dondurmam Tılsım, 2016). After Çok Özel İsimler (2017) and Sil Baştan (2019), her children’s novel Good Morning Barrage (Günaydın Bendi, 2020) drew attention to environmental pollution. This was followed by the novel Kalpten Seven İnsanlar (2020), the short story collection Ah Be Melek (2023), and the novel Sahte Cennetten Kaçış (2025). In her latest children’s novel, A Cat, a Chip and a Pile of Trash (Çip, Çöp ve Mia, 2026), she addresses the issue of international waste “trade”. İplikçi lives in İstanbul with her husband; she has a son.