Asli Erdogan studied Computer Technology and Physics at Bogazici University in Istanbul and worked as a particle physicist at CERN prior to publishing her first novel, Kaduk Adan, in 1994. In 1996, she won the Deutsche Welle Prize for her short story "The Wooden Birds." Her second novel, The City in Crimson Cloak, was published in the United States in 2007.
Erdogan is a human-rights activist and former Turkish representative of PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee.
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