I am a novelist, travel writer.I live in ISTANBUL if not travelling... I write in Turkish but have translated novels into seven languages. I love to read Cervantes, Dostoyevski, Goethe, Woolf, Hugo, Orhan Pamuk, Sevgi Soysal, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Pablo Neruda, Nazim Hikmet. Love the films of Woody Allen, Kieslowski, some Spielberg... My favorite cities are Istanbul, New York, Madrid, Venice.