Turkish · b. 1985
Ayşegül Savaş is a Turkish writer who lives in Paris. She was born in Turkey and studied in the United States, and she writes in English. Her first novel, Walking on the Ceiling (2018), follows a young Turkish woman in Paris who befriends an older writer. It was followed by White on White (2021), a novel about a woman renting a room in a city while she works on her research, and The Anthropologists (2022), about a couple searching for a home in an unfamiliar city. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and elsewhere. Her fiction is quiet and precise, and it returns to displacement, memory, friendship and the pull between the places people leave and the places they settle. Long Distance (2025) is her first story collection and was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction.