Eda İşler

Eda İşler (1988) is a Turkish author and translator, currently residing in Istanbul. She earned her degree in English Language Teaching from Uludağ University. Her fiction has been featured in numerous esteemed literary magazines in Turkey, including Varlık, Kitap-lık, Türk Dili, Dergah, and Hece. Between 2019 and 2021, she published several notable works, beginning with her collection, Kaza Süsü [Look Like An Accident], released in 2019 by Dergah. In 2021, she followed with her second collection, Görünür Bir Yerde [In A Visible Place], published by Everest. She worked as a script writer in an adaptation project of Özcan Alper, who is a famous Turkish director, in 2023. As a translator, İşler has brought to Turkish readers the works of acclaimed authors, including two novels by Deborah Levy—Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything—and a collection of short stories titled Birds of America by Lorrie Moore. Two stories from her second book were translated into Hungarian and published in 1749, which is one of the most prominent literary magazines in the country in 2024.