Tuna Kiremitçi

Tuna Kiremitçi — Biography

Tuna Kiremitçi (born 24 February 1973) is a contemporary Turkish singer-songwriter and crime author.

He is generally inspired by tragedies of common people, the dilemmas of women-men relationship in the society, and the melancholy of aging, all of which he used to create both sad and happy concepts in his works, and is influenced by the "romantic irony" brought by Professor Gürsel Aytaç to the Turkish literature.

In the 1990s, he worked both as a soloist and composer in the rock group Kumdan Kaleler, and together they released the album Denize Doğru in 1996. After releasing his first solo album, Kendi Halinde, in 2007, he collaborated with the Atlas rock group on the album Selam Yabancı (2013) as a soloist and songwriter. Together with Atlas, they released the EP Bir Uyumsuz Bulut in 2015.

In 2010, in an operation by the police to identify a prostitution mafia marketing of foreign women, he was invited to give a statement to the Istanbul Public Security Branch Directorate on the grounds that he had come across the mafia's customers. Despite these newspaper reports, there is no such statement in the Istanbul police records.

In 2013, he adapted Bu İşte Bir Yalnızlık Var and turned it into a movie, with Engin Altan Düzyatan and Özgü Namal portraying the leading roles. The next year, he brought Dualar Kalıcıdır on stage, and Nurseli İdiz starred as the play's main actor.

His books have been translated into 16 different languages. Kiremitçi has a son and a daughter. For a while, he worked as a journalist for Cumhuriyet. On 11 June 2010, he started writing in the Hürriyet newspaper's Kelebek appendix, but ended his work with them in 2012. Between 2013 and 2014, he wrote articles for the Aydınlık newspaper. Since 2020, he has been writing crime novel reviews in weekly newspaper Gazete Oksijen.