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Ahmet Ümit was born in Gaziantep in 1960, graduated from the School of Public Administration at Marmara University and then studied at the Moscow Social Science Academy until 1986. His earlier poems and short stories were published in various literary journals and his first collected poems Sokağın Zulası/ The Cache of the Street was published in 1989. Ümit was awarded the Ferit Oğuz Bayır “Thought and Art Award” for his collection of short stories entitled Çıplak Ayaklıydı Gece/The Night was Barefoot. He was credited as a renowned author and a leading figure of Turkish crime fiction on the back of the success of two further novels, entitled Beyoğlu Rapsodisi/Rhapsody of Beyoglu and Kavim /The Tribe and Patasana respectively. His novels have been adapted for the screen and used as plots for television drama series.
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Foreign Rights Sis ve Gece
The Fog and the Night
Nacht und Nebel-( Unions Verlag-German), (Ocenide Books-Greek)
Patasana
(Kedros Publishing-Greek), (Spanish)
Beyoğlu Rapsodisi/Rhapsody of Beyoglu
(Greek)
Şeytan Ayrıntıda Gizlidir/The Devil is in the Details(Ruffel Verlag- German)
Kukla/The Puppet
(French)
Masal Masal İçinde/Fairy Tales
(Korean)
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