Erendiz Atasü was born in Ankara in 1947. She graduated from the Faculty of
Pharmacy, Ankara University in 1968, and was a professor of pharmacognosy in
the same institution until her retirement in 1997.
Her short stories written with a feminist consciousness have been published
in literary journals such as Sanat Edebiyat '81, Düşün, Çağdaş Türk Dili, and
Varlık and her essays and articles on literary topics, on women issues, secular
society and Republican reforms in journals and dailies such as Saçak, Çağdaş
Türk Dili, Cumhuriyet Kitap, Varlık, Papirüs, Cumhuriyet, and Aydınlık.
She has four novels, six story collections, four collections of essays, and
various awards. Some of her short stories have been translated to other languages
and been published in anthologies in Great Britain, United States, France, Germany
and Holland.
Her novel, DAĞIN ÖTEKİ YÜZÜ has been translated into English by the title
of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and published in Britain. Her short story collection LANETLİLER has been translated into German and published in Germany by the name of DAS LIED MEERES. Another novel of hers, BİR YAŞDÖNÜMÜ RÜYASI has been translated into GREEK, and published in Greese, by the name of ON EIPO STHAN KLIMAKTHRIO.
Atasü's work has been subject to various literary research from the point of
view of both context and form. Problematic themes such as the alternative history
of women, surveying the Republican reforms with a feminine perspective, the
conceptualization of sexual relationships and feminine sexuality by women themselves;
and textualities such as the usage of imagery and language have been worked
upon.
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