Sevtap Baycili

(1968, Istanbul, Turkey) studied philosophy at the University of Istanbul and specialized in the works of Wittgenstein. In 1991 she moved to the Netherlands. Here Baycili wrote the theatre triptych Reductio ad absurdum. The first part, Doek (Curtain), has been performed as a public reading project by Maatschappij Discordia. Baycili made her debut as a novellist with the novel De Markov-keten (The Markov chain).And also her internet column Kip en ei zonder kop (Chicken and egg without a head) appeared for the magazine Intermediair. In 1999 the satire De nachtmerrie van de allochtoon (The nightmare of the immigrant) appeared, in which she describes in an amusing way how native and non-native Dutch get along with one another.
WIN2002