Çiler İlhan
Çiler İlhan is a writer. She studied International Relations and Political Science at Bosphorus University and hotel management at the Glion Hotel School in Switzerland. She has variously worked as an hotelier, a writer and an editor.
As a writer, İlhan has been active since her youth. Back in 1993, she won the Yaşar Nabi award for one of her short stories. She regularly publishes stories, essays, book reviews, travel pieces and translations in newspapers and magazines. Her first book "Rüya Tacirleri Odası" " is a collection of short stories that allude to one another. Her second book entitled "Sürgün" contains interconnected stories whose themes range from the invasion of Iraq to women from Batman, and the fate of laboratory. Sürgün won the EU Prize for Literature 2011, and was translated and published into English by Istros Books, London in 2016. Istros specialise in representing unheard voices from the Balkans. Exile, shortlisted also for Prix Du Livre Lorientales 2017, has so far been published in over 20 countries. İlhan,'s stories and articles were selected for over 15 prominent national and international anthologies. She is a member of Turkish and Dutch PEN.
