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Asli Erdogan

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Asli Erdogan

Asli Erdogan holds an MS degree in physics from Bogazici University in Istanbul. Anthropology and Indian American culture are among her areas of interest. A widely-traveled writer, Erdogan published her first novel Kabuk Adam (Crust Man) in 1994. Mucizevi Mandarin (Miraculous Mandarin, 1996) is a series of interconnected short stories....

Set in Rio, Kirmizi Pelerinli Kent (City in a Red Cape, 1998) is her second novel. Erdogan's short story "Wooden Birds" receieved first prize in a competition opened by Deutsche Welle Radio in 1997.

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Articles by Asli Erdogan

The Prisoner
By Asli Erdogan
She woke up long before the alarm.
Translated from Turkish by Deniz Perin
From “City in Crimson Cloak”
By Asli Erdogan
A huge army clad in black suddenly spreads over the horizon; it approaches at a gallop, full speed, and attacks just like that, without warning.
Translated from Turkish by Amy Spangler
Wooden Birds
By Asli Erdogan
Perhaps they might meet the village lads or the male patients of the men's sanatorium, as spent as themselves. What else was there to do in the midst of the Black Forest?
Translated from Turkish by Nebile Direkçgil