Erendiz Atasü

Erendiz Atasü started writing in 1972 in London, but was in no hurry of publishing. Her first short story collection Kadınlar da Vardır (Women also Exist) appeared in 1983 after receiving the "Akademi Kitabevi" award. 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. A modernist in her themes and messages, she likes to experiment with literary genres, bordering on postmodernist styles. Up to now she has published six novels, eight collections of short stories, and seven collections of essays. Especially in her essays she is an advocate of women's rights and secular society. She also publishes essays of literary criticism. She has won various prestigious awards of Turkish literary circles.

Papatya Alkan GENCE gives a concise biography of the author and a report of how her works have been received in Dictionary of Literary Biography (vol. 373), Turkish novelists since 1960.

Erendiz Atasü (born 1947) is a Turkish feminist author, notable for her novels, short stories and essays; also a previous academic.

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. Since then she has been a freelance writer. 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. 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.