Elif Gülez
Elif Gülez
Elif Gülez is a Turkish writer and translator. She has recently completed a PhD in literary practice supervised by Maureen Freely, at the University of Warwick. Her research is focused on migration, translation, displaced memories, and little-known histories. She writes both in her mother tongue Turkish and her second language, English. She holds an LLM degree in human rights law, an MA degree in English Literature and an MA degree in Writing.
Elif’s PhD research is on the 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the first internationally supervised mass transfer of populations in the 20th century. Her first novel Midilli Operasyonu (Operation Mitilini) was published in Turkish, by Istanbul-based independent publisher istos, in the summer of 2023.
Elif taught the interdisciplinary undergraduate module on writing about human rights and injustice for two years at Warwick's Law School. She is currently teaching another creative writing module: The Written World. She’s also involved in the Writing Wrongs Schools Programme, aimed at supporting young writers in their writing about social justice issues. Elif often receives invitations from universities in Turkey to deliver lectures or workshops on fiction .