Birgül Oğuz

Birgül Oğuz was born in Istanbul in 1981. After graduating from the Department of Comparative Literature at Istanbul Bilgi University,  she completed her Master′s degree at the same university in the field of Cultural Studies. Her various short stories, essays and translations have been published in Turkish magazines and newspapers such as "Varlık," "Notos Öykü," "Roman Kahramanları," "Remzi Kitap," "Radikal Kitap," "Parşömen," "Birikim," and "Felsefe Logos." The author and dramaturg of "Waiting," performed by Tiyatro Oyunevi in 2009, Oğuz is also the author of a short fiction book "Fasulyenin Bildiği" for which she received the 2007 Yaşar Nabi Nayır Youth Award. She currently gives lectures on text analysis and European novels at Nazım Hikmet Academy Department of Literature in Istanbul. She is also the chief editor of the Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs since 2009. In 2014 Oğuz won the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature.

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