Kerem Işık

Kerem Işık was born in 1976 in Izmir, Turkey. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and later completed a master’s degree in Physics at the University of Akron, Ohio. His short stories have been published in various literary journals and magazines in Turkey, including Kitap-lık, Varlık, Notos Öykü, Eşik Cini, and Özgür Edebiyat. His debut short story collection, Aslında Cennet de Yok, was published in 2010 by Yapı Kredi Publications (YKY). His second collection, Toplum Böceği, also published by YKY, won the Haldun Taner Short Story Award in 2012.
In 2015, he released his third short story collection, Iskalı Karnaval, followed by his first novel, Dünyanın Güçlü Tarafı, in 2020. His fourth short story collection, Sınır (Border), was published in February.
Işık has translated works by Aharon Appelfeld, Nadine Gordimer, Salman Rushdie, André Aciman, and Rollo May, among others, into Turkish. He is currently the editor-in-chief at Livera Publications.