Semih Gümüş

Semih Gümüş was born in Ankara in 1956. He finished middle and high school in Ankara. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University in 1981. In the same year, his first writing was published in the magazine, Yazko Edebiyat. Gümüş worked as a publication director in the Yayın Magazine (1981-1985); and as a general publication director in the Adam Öykü Magazine (1995-2005). In 2006, he published Notosöykü magazine and has served as a general publication director since then. Gümüş has also written and published many books including “Roman Kitabı” (1991), “Türk Yazınından Seçilmiş Kısa Öyküler” (1993), “Türk Yazınından Seçilmiş Hayvan Öyküleri” (1993), “Kara Anlatı Yazarı” (1994), “Karşılıksız Yazılar” (1994), “Yazının ve Tarihin Bilinci” (1994), “Başkaldırı ve Roman” (1996 and 2008), “Türk Yazınından Sçilmiş  Aşk Öyküleri” (1996), “Fethi Naci’ye Armağan” (1997), “Öykünün Bahçesi” (1999 and 2008), “Adalet Ağaoğlu′nun Romancılığı” (2000), “Futbol ve Biz” (2000), “Vüs’ar O.Bener: Kara Anlatı Yazarı” (2000), “Öykülerde İstanbul” (2000), “Puslu Ada” (2002), “Yazının Sarkacı Roman” (2003), “Yazarın Yanlızlık Burcu” (2005 and 2008), “Yazının Sarkacı Roman” (2006), “Öykünün Şimdiki Zamanı Bugünün Ustaları” (2007), “Dikkat! Kırılacak Eşya” (2007), “Eleştirinin Sis Çanı” (2008), “Kara Anlatı Yazarı Vüs’at O.Bener” (2008) and “Modernizm ve Postmodernizm” (2010). He collected stories and published as books such as “Ay’ı Boyamak” (2007), “Beyoğlu Öyküleri” (2002), “Aşk Öyküleri” (2003) and “İstanbul Öyküleri” (2003). Gümüş was awarded the Cevdet Kudret Critique Prize for his book “Başkaldırı ve Roman”.

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