Mehmet Coral


Mehmet Gündüz Coral was a Turkish novelist, known for his novels with historical settings. His works, such as Extinct Times of Byzantium and The Lost Diaries of Constantinople, are also translated to foreign languages.

Biography

Coral was born in İzmir, Turkey to middle-class parents. He grew up in İzmir, which is actually the ancient Smyrna, and very much influenced by the historical surroundings of his city and nearby locations like ancient Ephesus, Pergamum, Halicarnassus. Following his spartan boarding school years in private colleges, he went on to study business administration and economics in Aegean University. After graduation, he studied at the University of Amsterdam and The Hague Academy of International Law for post graduate studies.
Coral lived in Istanbul. He died on 15 April 2024, at the age of 77.

Novels

  • *Extinct Times of Byzantium
  • *The Lost Diaries of Constantinople
  • *Endless Breeze
  • *The Echo of the Universe
  • *The Ashes of Smyrna
  • *FLYING within the boundaries of time and thought
  • *Rusty Sun
  • *Asylum Island
  • *Operation Golden Virgin
  • *Love in Alachati
  • *Daughter of Time-Yellow Rose of Istanbul
  • *The Little Prince-The star that fell to the desert
  • *Memories of old Constantinople
  • *The swans of Lucerne
  • *Bird may die, remember the flight
  • *The diary of the Queen Constantinople
  • *The Maple trees of Yenikoy

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