Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist, a political thinker, and a public speaker whose work has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, Le Monde, La Stampa, New Statesman, and Der Spiegel, among several international media outlets. She won the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book award for her novel Women Who Blow On Knots and the Ambassador Of New Europe Award for her book Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed book How to Lose a Country. Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World, her latest book, has been published in several languages.
Ece Temelkuran lived in Beirut, Tunis, and Paris, to write her novels. She was a visiting fellow at Saint Anthony’s College Oxford to write Deep Mountain: Across The Armenian Turkish Divide. For the last six years, she has lived in Zagreb. She was a fellow at Robert Bosch foundation. Her novel The Time of Mute Swans has been published in several languages and has been turned into a play at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, and novel Women Who Blow On Knots was adapted by Arcola Theatre in London. She is on the advisory board of Progressive International and Democracy Next. She received the El Mundo Award for her body of work. She is currently based in Berlin.

Top Titles

• Women Who Blow On Knots (2017)
• How to Lose a Country (2019)
• Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World (2022)