Hakan Akdoğan
Philologist and author. After graduating from “English Linguistics” at Hacettepe University he studied “Communication and Media” at Anadolu University. He also studied on “Human, Society and Communication” programme at Uludag University. He worked as a director in retail industry, editor in publishing houses and radio programmer. He has been giving lectures on “creative writing”, “close reading” and “awareness in art” at universities, private high schools and various institutions since 2003. He published the journal: “Distopya” and has done translations. He wrote the novels “Pride in the Nude”, “The Living Shadow”, “Touching”, “Struma- A Lullaby in the Dark”, “ Existence and Illegitimacy”, “Distance of Hedgehog” and won the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize.