About Leyla Erbil
Leyla Erbil (12 January 1931 – 19 July 2013) was a Turkish writer. She was one of the leading female contemporary writers of Turkey, author of six novels, three collections of short stories and a book of essays. She was the first Turkish female writer to be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature by PEN International in 2002. Erbil was a co-founder of the Union of Turkish Artists and the Writers Syndicate of Turkey. == Personal life == A second child in a family with three children, Leylâ Erbil was born on 12 January 1931 in Istanbul, Turkey, to Emine Huriye Hanim and Hasan Tahsin. She studied at the Kadıköy Girls School and attended the Department of English Language and Literature of Istanbul University. She married her first husband, Aytek Şay, in 1951 after her first year of university. The marriage, which did not last long, caused Erbil to take a break from her education; she returned to university shortly after they divorced. She met her second husband, Mehmet Erbil, while working as a secretary and translator at Scandinavian Airlines in 1953, and took yet another break from her education during her last year. They wed after a few short months, and she did not resume her education afterwards.
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