Melike Belkıs Aydın

Melike Belkıs Aydın was born in Istanbul in 1984. She graduated from the Law Faculty at Istanbul University. Since 2012 she has been working as a research assistant at the Law Faculty of Eskişehir Anadolu University. Her first review essay was published in Varlık magazine. Her reviews, essays and interviews have been published many literary journals such as Varlık, Yasakmeyve, Virgül, and İstanbulplus. Aydın published her first book "Kılavuzun Burnu" in 2014 (Sıcak Nal publications). In 2016, she received the 6th Türkan Saylan Award for Art and Science for her story book "Pembe Kızıl."

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