Ece Temelkuran

Ece Temelkuran’s novels Women Who Blow on Knots and The Time of Mute Swans have been translated into several languages and adapted for the stage. Her political essays, including Deep Mountain and Turkey: The Insane and Melancholy, examine the ties between the personal and political. Since leaving Turkey in 2016, she has written in English, earning international acclaim with How to Lose a Country and Together. She has lived across the Middle East and Europe and is now based in Berlin, serving on the advisory boards of Progressive International and DemocracyNext.