Sevgi Soysal

Sevgi Soysal was born on 30 September 1936 in Istanbul, the third of six children, the daughter of an architect who was a civil servant and of a German mother. After secondary school in Ankara, she studied archaeology, married a poet and translator in 1956, and attended courses in archaeology and theatre in Göttingen. She then worked at the state radio and television. After the coup d'état of 1971, her first novel was banned for obscenity, and she spent eight months in prison in Ankara, then two and a half months in exile in Adana. She received the Orhan Kemal Prize in 1974 and died in Istanbul on 22 November 1976.

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• NovelTante RosaSevgi Soysal · 1968not translated into EnglishLiterature