Nermin Yıldırım

Nermin Yıldırım is a Turkish writer born in Bursa in 1980. After graduating from the press and publishing department of Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication Sciences, he started working as a journalist and editor. During her university years, she published a fanzine called "Alem-i Nisvan", which she prepared from a feminist perspective.

After his graduation, he continued his work in various media organizations and worked as a copywriter in advertising agencies.

In addition to his writing career, Yıldırım also participated in international literary projects and came together with writers from different countries in initiatives such as "Manchester Letters" and "Tramline Project". In 2013, he spent three months in Germany as part of a program that hosted artists in Cologne. Between 2013 and 2018, he regularly wrote stories in his column Dış Hatlar in Ot Magazine. As of November 2018, it meets with its readers in KAFA Magazine under the title Uzakların Kafası.

Yıldırım's works generally focus on social and individual memory. In his first novel, Forget Me Not Apartment, he sheds light on the last fifty years of Turkey through the story of Süreyya, who hears her mother's voice for the first time when she calls her mother after many years. While Dreams Cannot Be Told focuses on the past of a family in , in Hidden Gardens Map he deals with both individual and social changes through mysterious letters dating from 1930 to 1960. Unutma Lessons draws attention as a psychological novel about love, dreams and games of the mind.

Without Touching, published in 2017, was selected as the "Copyright Book of the Year" by Dünya Kitap. Guest, published a year later, was among the 12 books in the Books at Berlinale category, which brings the literary works of the Berlin Film Festival to the cinema. The author's seventh novel, Home, met with readers in 2020.

Yıldırım, who also wrote the script for director Çağan Irmak's movie Adile Naşit, is also a member of the international PEN writers' union. He lives both in Barcelona and Istanbul.

Productions in which he took part

• The Golden Boll (1969) — Self - Jury/Presenter

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.