Hakan Günday was born in Rhodes in 1976. He finished his primary education in Brussels. After attending Ankara Tevfik Fikret High School, he studied at the Department of French Translator in the Faculty of Literature of Hacettepe University. He then transferred to Université Libre de Bruxelles. Günday continued his study in the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University. He published his first novel, Kinyas ve Kayra, in 2000. He is also a playwright and working in cooperation with DOT company- İstanbul (http://go-dot.org/). His play Mandrel did its premiere at the 17th International İstanbul Theatre Festival (2010). (http://tiyatro.iksv.org/en/program/27)