Author • Turkish literature
Yeşim Saygın
She was born in Bursa and spent her childhood in this charming, green city. She studied veterinary medicine in İstanbul University, and continued with her doctoral studies in Marmara University, Faculty of Pharmacy. Her poems and articles were published in magazines such as Varlık, Milliyet Sanat, Cumhuriyet Kitap and Hürriyet Gösteri. In 1996, she received Yaşar Nabi Nayır Remarkable Poetry Award. Her first children’s novel Children of the Haunted Lake (Hayaletli Gölün Çocukları, 2007) was followed by The Harmonica Player (Mızıkacı, 2005). House by the Swamp (Bataklığın Kıyısındaki Ev, 2007) received IBBY Turkey Jury Special Award for Children’s Book of the year 2007. After The Owl Oath (Baykuş Yemini, 2012), her latest children’s novel The Diary Codes (Günlükte Saklı Sırlar, 2021) is now meeting with her readers. Saygın lives in İstanbul with her husband and she has one daughter.