Background
Gulsoy, Murat was born on March 31, 1967 in Istanbul, Turkey. Son of Turan and Selma (Oskay) Gulsoy.
Gulsoy, Murat was born on March 31, 1967 in Istanbul, Turkey. Son of Turan and Selma (Oskay) Gulsoy.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1989. Master of Arts in Psychology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1992. Postgraduate, Istanbul Technology University, since 1997.
He started his literary career as a publisher and a writer of the bimonthly magazine Hayalet Gemi (Ghost Ship) in 1992. He also produced interactive hypertext works on internet exploring new ways of narrative. Gülsoy has published 12 books in Turkey so far.
Besides short stories, he has four novels addressing modern masters Kafka, Borges, Eco, Laurence Stern, Fowles and Orhan Pamuk.
He is the recipient of some of the most prestigious national literary awards. Besides being a writer, he also works as an engineer for biomedical science, and a teacher for creative writing.
He is the head of the editorial board of Bogazici University Press. Stehlen Sie dieses Buch is the first book to be translated into German (Literaturca Verlag).
His novels are published in Macedonian, Arabics, Bulgarian, Albanian and Chinese.
His 2000 Sait Faik Award winning book "Bu Kitabı Çalın" (Steal This Book) ironically "borrows" (or steals) its name from Abbie Hoffman"s 1971 book "Steal This Book" and it is referred in the book as a postmodern parody.
Married Nazli Okten, March 18, 1995.