<p>Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator, whose journalism has appeared in the <em>Guardian, New York Times,, Frankfurter Allgemeine</em> and <em>Der Spiegel</em>. She won the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book award for her novel <em>Women Who Blow on Knots</em>, and the Ambassador of New Europe Award for her book <em>Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy</em>. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed <em>How to Lose a Country</em>.</p>
