Nedim ?pek

Nedim İpek writes about the things people struggle to say: loneliness, the need to be loved, and the roles we take on to belong. His essays in Humans and Masks explore the distance between our public selves and our private feelings.

Based in Germany, he worked as a cook before becoming a care assistant. Encounters in care homes inform his Turkish book Yarım Kalmışlar, which brings personal memories together with imagined lives to explore aging, family, and wishes postponed.

His writing starts with everyday relationships and opens into questions about identity, love, and the time we still have. Humans and Masks is available in nine languages.