Peride Celal(1916-2013)

Peride Celal worked for a while at the Press Attaché in Bern, Switzerland. He started his writing career with a story he published in Yedi Gün magazine (1935), followed by stories, interviews and novels in Son Posta, Cumhuriyet, Tan and Milliyet newspapers. In the first fifteen years of his writing life, he was known for his romance and adventure novels. These novels include The Extinguishing Flame (1938), Summer Rain (1940), Mother Girl (1941), Red Vase (1941), I Didn't Shoot (1942), Hawk (1944), The Birth of Love (1944), Yildiz Tepe (1945), Narrow Road (1949). Later, a great transformation is seen in the authorship of Peride Celal. The books of this new period, which he wrote with a more realistic and social perspective, are: The Novel of Three Women (1954), The Fortieth Room (1958), At the End of the Night (1963), Song of the Fall (1966), From the Diary of a Married Woman (1971), Three Twenty-Four Hours (1971), Jaguar (1978), Death of a Lady (1981), The Case of the Share (1985), Three Women (1987), Wolves (1991), Letter (1994), The Regular Life of Ms. Melahat (1999). Peride Celal won the 1977 Sedat Simavi Literature Award for her novel Three Twenty Four Hours and the 1991 Orhan Kemal Novel Award for her novel Wolves.