Nihan Kaya

Nihan Kaya (1979-08-01) 1 August 1979 (age 45) is a fiction writer and theorist.^[1][2] She is known for her publications on aesthetic theory and creativity as well as her novels and short stories.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} She currently teaches in the Psychology Department at MEF University in Istanbul.^[8]

Nihan Kaya received the Writers Union of Turkey (Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği) Award for The Sanctuary in 2004.^[9]

Selected list of works

Non-fiction

• 2019 İyi Toplum Yoktur: Günlük Hayatta Toplumun Bireyi İstismar Biçimleri (ISBN 978-605-375-924-9) ^[10]
• 2018 İyi Aile Yoktur (ISBN 978-605-375-848-8) ^[11]
• 2013 Yazma Cesareti: Acının Yaratıcılığa Dönüşümü [The Courage to Write: Converting Suffering to Creativity] (ISBN 978-975-539-756-6) ^[12]
• 2011 Fildişi Kuyu: Psikanalitik Edebiyat Eleştirisi ve Kadın [The Ivory Well: Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism and the Feminine] (ISBN 978-605-5515-49-2) ^[13] (Collection of academic papers published between 1998-2011)^[14][15]
• 2008 Compelled to Create: The Courage to Go Beyond. (In: Dreaming the Myth Onwards: Revisioning Jungian Therapy and Thought, edited by Lucy Huskinson) (ISBN 978-0-415-43838-4)

Fiction

• 2017 Kırgınlık [Resentment] (ISBN 978-605-375-708-5)^[16]
• 2016 Kar ve İnci [The Snow and the Pearl] (ISBN 978-605-314-106-8)^[17]
• 2012 Ama Sizden Değilim [I Am Not One of Us] (ISBN 978-605-4643-13-4)
• 2008 Disparöni [Dyspareunia] (ISBN 978-975-6124-08-6)
• 2006 Buğu [The Mist] (ISBN 975-995-046-4)
• 2004 Çatı Katı [The Sanctuary](ISBN 975-6611-88-X)
• 2003 Gizli Özne [The Hidden Self] (ISBN 975-6611-61-8)