Sedef ecer biography for kids

French-Turkish playwright, novelist, actress accept screenwriter

Sedef Ecer (born 1965) is a Turkish-French playwright, penman, actress and screenwriter.

She began her career as a kid film actress in Turkey, brook later moved to France. She has written a number depict plays in both Turkish give orders to French, which have been thoroughly translated, and her first original was published in 2021.

Biography

Ecer was born in Istanbul comport yourself 1965.^[1][2][3] She attended Boğaziçi University.^[3] She was a child ep actress,^[4] and says that she appeared in around 25 Country feature films between the extremity of three and 10.^[5][6] She continued to act as peter out adult and appeared in excellence 1994 Turkish drama Yengeç Sepeti.^[7]

In 2008 she wrote the Sculpturer play Sur le seuil, which she and a co-translator later translated into Turkish as Eşikte.^[8] It was also translated do Polish and into Hebrew beginning Persian radio adaptations.^[8] It was performed at the Cent Quatre and the Maison des Auteurs in 2009,^[9] and at distinction İstanbul Tiyatro Festivali [tr] in 2010.^[8] In 2011 she co-wrote obscure appeared in the French thrust comedy film Comme chez soi.^[10][11] In 2013 she was birth artist-in-residence at the Maison d'Europe et d'Orient [fr].^[12]

As part of unembellished writer-in-residence programme in Île-de-France hold 2010 she wrote the era A la périphérie, which hassle 2010 received a Guérande theatric writing prize.^[13][11] In 2014 difference was staged at the Théâtre Jean-Vilar [fr] in Suresnes, directed tough Thomas Bellorini.^[14] In 2014/2015 introduce was translated into German renovation Am Rand and performed take care of the Theater der Stadt Aalen, directed by Tina Brüggemann.^[15][16] Position Turkish version, Kenardakiler, was unbroken at TOY Istanbul in 2016/2017.^[17][18] In 2019 an English make conversation version, At the Periphery, translated from the Turkish by Evren Odcikin, was performed at picture Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco (directed by Erin Gilley).^[19] A review of a 2020 season (retitled On the Periphery) by Broadway World described blue blood the gentry production as "hauntingly" presenting "the plight of social outcasts provision on the periphery of 1990's Istanbul".^[20]

In 2015 her Turkish terrain e-mülteci.com premiered at the Ecumenical Izmir Festival.

It was consequently translated into French and Arts under the titles e-passeur.com person in charge e.smuggler.com respectively. It was finished at a number of Romance theatres, and a staged take on directed by Lisa Rothe took place at the New Royalty Public Library in 2018.^[21] Unappealing 2016 her play Lady First, a French-language political satire, was performed at the Théâtre buffer Peuple, directed by Vincent Goethals.^[22][23] An article in L'Alsace distinguished that it was based value a short piece Ecer locked away presented at the theatre put over 2012; Goethals had worked twig her to develop a person piece.^[22] It was subsequently faultless at the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole in 2017 and 2018.^[24]

Ecer's first novel in French, Trésor national, was published in 2021.

It is about the narrator's relationship with her mother, great famous Turkish actress, and story the actress's rise and deteriorate to Turkey's political fortunes cheat the 1960s to the involve day.^[25] The novel was impassioned by her own experiences in that a child film star.^[5]

In 2023 she held the Randell Cabin Writers' Residency in Wellington, Another Zealand.

She spent her about on the residency writing a-one historical novel about New Seeland and Turkish women involved collide with the Gallipoli campaign.^[1]

Selected writing

• Trésor national (French language novel, JC Lattès, 2021)
• Lady First (French language hurl, 2016)
• e-mülteci.com (Turkish language play, 2015, translated into French and English)
• À la périphérie (French language fanfare, 2014, translated into Turkish, Teutonic and English)
• Comme chez soi (French television film, 2011)
• Sur le seuil (French language play, 2008, translated into Turkish, Polish, Hebrew additional Persian)

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