Author Biography

Hakan Yaman was born in Istanbul in
1963. His first novel The Wings of Israfel
was published in 2007. Although it was
not translated in any other languages,
the novel made an overwhelming
impact out of Turkey too. He won Yunus
Nadi Novel Prize with his second novel
Woman in the Photograph in 2009.
His third novel Fall Scented Sins that
is a love and betrayal story among
the Italian Levantines in Izmir in the
19th century was published in 2011.
The Novelist came out in March 2014,
a novel written as a suicide note by
a novelist, was selected as the Book
of the Month by PEN Turkey in July
2014. In the same year, Hakan Yaman
was nominated as the candidate for
European Union Prize for Literature. His
third novel Güz Kokulu Günahlar was
translated in to English with Fall Scented
Sins title in 2017. Hakan Yaman is the
member of PEN Turkey since 2011.