Ayfer Tunç

Ayfer Tunç

Öykü, roman ve senaryo yazarı. 1964, Adapazarı doğumlu. İstanbul Erenköy Kız Lisesi ve İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi mezunu. 1989 yılında gazeteciliğe başlayarak, Sokak dergisi ile Güneş ve Yeni Yüzyıl gazetelerinde çalıştı.

Çalışmalarını çeşitli yayınevlerinde editörlük yaparak sürdürdü. 1990’lı yıllardan itibaren sinema filmi ve dizi film senaryoları da yazdı. Edebiyat üzerine ilk yazısını Edebiyat 81 dergisinde (1983), diğer ürünlerini de aynı yıldan itibaren kitap-lık, Hayalet Gemi, Öküz vb. dergilerde yayımladı.

Saklı adlı öyküsüyle 1989 yılı Yunus Nadi Öykü Armağanında Birincilik Ödülünü kazandı.
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Ayfer Tunç was born in Adapazari in 1964. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Istanbul University. During her university years, she wrote many articles for various literary, cultural and art magazines. In 1989, she participated in the Yunus Nadi Short Story Competition, which was organized by Cumhuriyet newspaper and won first prize with her short story "Saklı" (Hidden). Between 1999 and 2004, Tunç worked as a chief editor at Yapı Kredi Publishing House. In 2003, her book "Bir Maniniz Yoksa Annemler Size Gelecek-70’li Yıllarda Hayatımız" (My Parents Will Visit You If You Aren’t Occupied - Our Life in the ′70s), which was published in 2001, received the International Balkanika Award, co-organized by seven Balkan countries, and qualified for being translated into six languages in Balkan. This book has also been published in Arabic in Syria and Lebanon. Her film script "Havada Bulut" (Cloud in the Sky), based on short stories by Sait Faik, was filmed and broadcasted on TRT in 2003. Tunç currently continues to write for various newspapers and literary magazines.