About the Author
Zenife Pinar was born in 1949 in Samsun, Turkey. Her beloved grandfather, a Crimean Tatar, gave her the name of his own mother a gesture of affection that would shape her sense of identity. The eldest of three children in a civil servant family, she picked up a pen at a young age and never put it down, turning writing into a lifelong passion.
Her childhood and adolescence were spent moving back and forth between Istanbul and Ankara. When the family first relocated from ...