Born in 1940, Oya Baydar graduated from Notre Dame de Sion High School for girls. The youth novel which she wrote in her senior year was published in the Hurriyet newspaper, introducing her as “the Françoise Sagan of Turkey”. Novels: God Forgot His Children, The Age of War, the Age of Hope, Farewell Alyosha, Cat Letters, Returning Nowhere, Hot Ashes Remain, The Gate of the Judas Tree, The Lost Word.