İnci Aral was born in Denizli in 1944. After finishing Manisa Women’s Teaching College, she studied painting at the Gazi Technical Institute. She began writing short stories in 1976, was first published in 1979 and later moved to novels.

Her work focuses on the emotions of the individual shaped by cultural and sociological phenomena, social upheaval and breakdowns, problems between the sexes, lack of communication, the impossible nature of love, and issued related to existence.

Aral’s stories and novels have been published in Bulgaria, France, FYR Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Iraq, the Netherlands and the USA, and a novel is scheduled for publication in the United Kingdom in 2014.

She has published nine novels, eight short stories and two volumes of essays to date.

İnci Aral lives in Istanbul.

Books

• SUGARING TIME - 1979 (Short Story) 1980 Akademi Kitabevi Award
• SCENES OF A MASSACRE - 1983 (Short Story) Nevzat Üstün Award for Short Story
• INSOMNIACS - 1984 (Short Story)
• THE HEAVENLY WINTER OF LOVE - 1986 (Short Story)
• DEAD MALE BIRDS - 1991 (Novel) 1992 Yunus Nadi Novel Award
• MODERN TIMES OF DECEPTION 1: GREEN - 1994 (Novel)
• NO LOVE NO DEATH - 1997 (Novel)
• BIRDS MIGRATING THROUGH ME - 1998 (Memoir - Novel)
• 40 IN THE SHADE - 2000 (Short Story) 2001 Yunus Nadi Award for Short Story
• MODERN TIMES OF DECEPTION 2: PURPLE - 2003 (Novel) 2004 Orhan Kemal Novel Award (published in Greece in 2008)
• MOMENTS TRACES PASSIONS - 2003 (Essay)
• STONE AND FLESH - 2005 (Novel)
• YOU FORGOT TO KISS MY SOUL - 2006 (Short Story)
• MODERN TIMES OF DECEPTION 3: SAFFRON YELLOW - 2007 (Novel)
• FORGETTING - 2008 (Memoir - Interview)
• COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES - 2009 (Short Stories)
• FIDELITY - 2010 (Novel)
• WHEN YOU SANG YOUR SONG - 2011 (Novel)
• THE MAGIC OF WRITING - 2011 (Essay)
• ŞARKINI SÖYLEDİĞİN ZAMAN - 2011 (Novel) 2012 Tepeyran Novel Award, Kıbatek Eurasia Turkish Literature Award
• IN HIS OWN NIGHT - 2014 (Novel)