Sadık Yemni

Sadık Yemni (born Istanbul, 1951) is a Dutch novelist of Turkish extraction. He is known particularly for such "multi-cultural whodunits" as De roos van Amsterdam ("The rose of Amsterdam").

Yemni is one of the most popular fantasy and science fiction authors of Turkey. He was born in Istanbul and has resided in Amsterdam since 1975. His writing combines myriad genres and styles like detective, fiction, drama, paranormal, horror, science fiction, metaphysics, and humor. He is the author of twenty two novels published in the Turkish language, as well as a variety of short stories, essays, plays, and film scripts. With his rich imagination, Sadık creates the most exciting and mysterious worlds in his novels, therefore earning him the nickname “Lord of the Turkish fiction”.

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