Celil Oker
Celil Oker was a Turkish crime fiction writer.
Biography
After studying at Talas Amerikan Junior School, he graduated from Tarsus American High School. Subsequently, he moved to Istanbul and studied at Boğaziçi University. After graduating from the English Language and Literature department in 1971, he worked as a translator, journalist and encyclopedia writer. He transferred to advertising as a copywriter in various prominent agencies. After more than a decade as a partner in an agency he co-founded, he quit the industry in 1999. Subsequently he worked as a full-time lecturer in the Communication Faculty of Istanbul Bilgi University. He married and he has two children. In 2004, Celil Oker, Pınar Kür, Elif Şafak, Murathan Mungan and Faruk Ulay wrote a novel. Five authors each of whom continued to write when the other one left it unfinished. He died in Istanbul on May 5, 2019.
Works
Novels
Çıplak Ceset, April 1999Kramponlu Ceset, October 1999Bin Lotluk Ceset, July 2000Rol Çalan Ceset, July 2001Son Ceset, January 2004Bir Şapka Bir Tabanca, October 2005Yenik ve Yalnız, August 2010Beyaz Eldiven Sarı Zarf, September 2011Sen Ölürsün Ben Yaşarım, December 2015
Other
Beşpeşe. with Murathan Mungan, Pınar Kür, Faruk Ulay, Elif Şafak.
Award
He won Kaktüs Kahvesi awards with his first novel Çıplak Ceset, 1998.