Four more short story collections were published up to 1995, when her first and acclaimed novel Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain)-outwardly a family history-in which she discusses the endeavour and the attainments of the Republican revolution, as well as its shortcomings from the standpoints of women, appeared. Her first short story collection Kadınlar da Vardır (Women also Exist) appeared in 1983 after receiving the "Akademi Kitabevi" award. Literary careerĮrendiz Atasü started writing in 1972 in London, but was in no hurry of publishing. She later declared that during that year she thought a lot about the complexities of the positions of women in Western and Middle Eastern societies respectively. The year she spent at London University in the early 1970s as a British Council scholar was crucial in the process of her transformation into a literary figure. Since then she has been a freelance writer. Born in Ankara in 1947, as the only child of mathematician Faik Sayron and English literature instructor Hadiye Sayron, she was educated in Ankara College and the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara University, where she continued as a doctorate student (ph.D in 1974) and subsequently became a professor of pharmacognosy (1988), and taught until her early retirement in 1997.
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