Birgül Oğuz

Birgül Oğuz (born 1981, Istanbul) is a Turkish writer. She was born in İstanbul and studied Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Istanbul Bilgi University. She also attended the University of Edinburgh in 2006. Currently working towards a PhD in English literature at Boğaziçi University, she also teaches literature at Moda Sahnesi and Nazım Hikmet Academy in Istanbul.

She has published two works of fiction to date: Fasulyenin Bildiği (2007) and Hah (2012). The latter won the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature.[1]

In 2015, she participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Bio". Archived from the original on 2019-08-30. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  2. ^ "2015 Resident Participants". iwp.uiowa.edu. The International Writing Program. Retrieved 2017-04-10.