WCengiz Aktar is a Turkish political scientist, journalist and writer. He has published numerous books on the European Union and its relations with Turkey. He worked for the United Nations and European Union. He was part of a campaign calling for an apology of the Turks towards the Armenians for the Armenian Genocide.
WAtaol Behramoğlu is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator.
WMuhammed Bozdağ is a Turkish writer who publishes primarily self-help literature based on a blend of Islamic and New Age concepts.
WKâtip Çelebi, or Ḥājjī Khalīfa ; was the celebrated Ottoman-Turkish polymath and leading literary author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He compiled a vast universal encyclopaedia, the famous Kaşf az-Zunūn, and wrote many treatises and essays. “A deliberate and impartial historian… of extensive learning”, Franz Babinger hailed him "the greatest encyclopaedist among the Ottomans."
WMurat Gülsoy is a Turkish writer. He started his literary career as a publisher and a writer of the bimonthly magazine Hayalet Gemi in 1992. His works explore the metafictive potential of postmodern self-consciousness with ‘page turning’ plots. He also produced interactive hypertext works on internet exploring new ways of narrative. Gülsoy has published 18 books in Turkey so far. Besides short stories, he has eight novels addressing modern masters Kafka, Borges, Eco, Laurence Sterne, Fowles and Orhan Pamuk. He is the recipient of some of the most prestigious national literary awards. He conducts creative writing workshops since 2004. Besides being a writer, he is also a professor with Bogazici University at Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He is the head of the editorial board of Bogazici University Press and director of Bogazici University Nazım Hikmet Culture and Art Research Center. Stehlen Sie dieses Buch is his first book to be translated into German. His novels are published in English, Macedonian, Arabics, Bulgarian, Albanian and Chinese. His 2000 Sait Faik Award-winning book "Bu Kitabı Çalın" "borrows" its name from Abbie Hoffman's 1971 book "Steal This Book" and it is referred in the book as a postmodern parody.
WFerit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
WFatma Aliye Topuz, often known simply as Fatma Aliye or Fatma Aliye Hanım, was a Turkish novelist, columnist, essayist, women's rights activist and humanitarian. Although there was an earlier published novel by the Turkish female author Zafer Hanım in 1877, since that one remained her only novel, Fatma Aliye Hanım with her five novels is credited by literary circles as the first female novelist in Turkish literature and the Islamic world.