About Buket Uzuner
Buket Uzuner is a Turkish writer, author of novels, short stories, and travelogues. She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland. Her works have been translated into eight languages: Spanish, English, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Korean, and Bulgarian. Her novel “The Sound of Fishsteps” (1993), was awarded Turkey's Yunus Nadi Prize, while her novel ”Mediterranean Waltz” (1998) was named novel of the year by the University of Istanbul. The Sound of Fishsteps (Turkish: Balık İzlerinin Sesi) is a 1993 novel by Buket Uzuner, which was awarded the 1993 Yunus Nadi Novel Prize and was republished in 2002 by Remzi Kitabevi in English language translation by Pelin Ariner.
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