'İçim Dışım Sobe' author Serpil Yıldız Özdemir meets her readers

Author Serpil Yıldız Özdemir, who reached a wide readership in a short time with her book "İçim Dışım Sobe," will meet with her readers on Monday, May 4, at 18:00, following the book's second printing, to chat, talk about her writing journey, and sign her books. The signing event will take place at Public Town in Fenerbahçe, Kadıköy.

Serpil Yıldız Özdemir asks the reader this question: Can you really hide? While asking this question, she also tries to bring the reader out of the dark corner where they are hiding.

In each story, the author strips away our social masks in a single move. Everything begins with a "sobe" (tag/found you) sound; we are left alone with all the truths we run from, all the secrets we keep silent about, and all the wounds we ignore. She makes one feel that subtle ache between submission to fate (Amor Fati) and resistance. She allows for the discovery of the unsettling depth beneath ordinary lives.

The back cover of the book reads: Life is sometimes as innocent as a child's game, and sometimes as ruthless as an executioner's cold-bloodedness. İçim Dışım Sobe forces us to stand on that invisible line and look at ourselves. Between these pages, you will encounter fathers who have their own chests shot to ease their son's pain, women who weave their revenge stitch by stitch in the cold light of a laboratory, and souls who find their own loneliness in the sound of the sea.

WHO IS SERPİL YILDIZ ÖZDEMİR?

She was born in Ankara in May '68. She studied Business Administration at Mülkiye and International Relations at Bilkent. She moved to Istanbul. She began her advertising career in the creative department of Pars-McCann Erickson. She gained experience at San Francisco McCann Erickson and Wolfe&Doyle. Meanwhile, she took advertising courses at the Academy of Art School. After returning to Istanbul, she worked for major brands such as Arçelik, Unilever, Ülker, and Colgate at agencies like Young&Rubicam Advertising, JWTManAjans, and Wunderman. She won nearly forty awards from advertising competitions such as Effie, Kırmızı, Kristal Elma, and Epica. After twenty years, she ended her active advertising life and moved to academia. She completed her master's degree in the New Media Department at Kadir Has University. She taught creativity courses as a full-time lecturer in the Advertising Department, and the Advertising Workshop she founded and managed won thirty-two creativity awards. She retired after nine years. She began writing short stories. Her stories titled "Gök Yüzü" (Sky) and "Kefen" (Shroud) were included in anthology books. Her story "Denize Sor" (Ask the Sea) was chosen as the winner in the short story competition organized by Mürekkep Publishing. The manuscript she submitted to the Yol Akademi short story book competition was deemed worthy of publication. İçim Dışım Sobe met with readers in the first months of 2026. She has been married to Can for thirty-three years. She has a son named Pamir and a daughter-in-law named Şeyda.