Author • Turkish literature

Sibel K. Türker

Sibel K. Türker was born in Ankara. She completed her university education at Ankara University Faculty of Law. Her stories have been published in major literary magazines. After her first story book, KalpYazan (2003), Sibel K. Türker, also a columnist, was awarded the 2004 Yunus Nadi Short Story Award for Öykü Sersemi (2005) and the 2006 Haldun Taner Short Story Award for Ağula (2007). Her latest short story book, Aşk’ın Kalplerimizdeki Mutat Yolculuğu was published in 2014. The author is also popular with her novels, titled: Şair Öldü (2006), Meryem’in Biricik Hayatı (2008), Benim Bütün Günahlarım (2010), Hayatı Sevme Hastalığı (2012), Mecnun Kelebekler (2015) and Burada Kalmak (2018). In 2013, Hayatı Sevme Hastalığı won the Yunus Nadi Novel Award and the Duygu Asena Novel Award as well as the Ebubekir Hazım Tepeyran Novel Award. Şair Öldü has been translated into many foreign languages. Picturing different aspects of our lives in her stories and novels, Türker talks about a young girl’s struggle with the challenges life puts before her, in her first YA novel, The Winter Sun (Kış Güneşi, 2021), written for the award-winning Bridge Books collection of Günışığı Kitaplığı. Her novel Cennette Gibiyim (2024), which holds up a mirror to women’s inner worlds, was awarded the 2025 Duygu Asena Novel Award. The author lives in Ankara with her husband; she has a daughter.