ÇİĞDEM SEZER

She was born in 1960 in Trabzon. She has published by now seven poetry collections. She is the recipient of the 1993 Dünya Book Magazine Poetry Prize and 2006 Ceyhun Atıf Kansu Poetry Prize. She got 2014 Türkan Saylan Arts Award for her children poetry book called Alfabeden Kaçan Harfler (Letters Escaping from the Alphabet). She has written novels for the grown-up and the youth. Çiğdem Sezer also the author of some late history and city monography boks. Overall she wrote more than twenty books, and she lives in Ankara.