Erendiz Atasü interview, 1998

Atasü, Erendiz

Ungar, Steven, 1945-

University of Iowa. International Writing Program

Turkish

1998

Steve Ungar interviews Erendiz Atasü. Atasü currently works as a freelance writer, but she was formerly a professor and a pharmacist. She started writing at 25 while living in England. Atasü says that she has always been obsessed with the conception of time- present day, past, future. She also believes that where you live can have a major impact on the type of person you become, as she feels growing up in Turkey has played a large role in shaping who she is. When asked to name the authors or works that influenced her, Atasü responds that every good novel helps to deepen her interpretation, but she can't name any particular author or novel other than Virginia Woolf. She said that she didn't fully appreciate Woolf's works until she started writing herself. She liked the way that Woolf could form links between things that would seem to have no connection at all. Atasü always writes in Turkish and then she sometimes translates the works into English. Staying in Iowa and being surrounded by English speaking people has brought a new perspective to her thinking and writing. Atasü refers to herself as a Turkish feminist writer.

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Atasü, Erendiz
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

1990-2000

United States -- Iowa -- Iowa City

00:28:00

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