About the Author

Yakup Almelek was born in Ankara in 1936 and moved to Istanbul with his family in 1955. He graduated from the School of Economics and Commerce in Istanbul and spent six months in Boston working for the Boston Gas Company. In 1967, he founded his own company, now in its forty-first year. He writes a regular column for Salom. One of his short stories has been turned into a film and three of his plays, The Businessman, The Awakening, and The Governess, have been staged.