Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator, whose journalism has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Der Spiegel. 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. She has been twice recognised as Turkey’s most-read political columnist, and twice rated as one of the ten most influential people in social media (with three million twitter followers).Her non-fiction, including How to Lose a Country: The Seven Steps From Democracy to Dictatorship, has received international critical acclaim.
Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator, whose journalism has appeared in the <i>Guardian, New York Times,, Frankfurter Allgemeine</i> and <i>Der Spiegel</i>. She won the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book award for her novel <i>Women Who Blow on Knots</i>, and the Ambassador of New Europe Award for her book <i>Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy</i>. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed <i>How to Lose a Country</i>.