Uyar, who is one of the founders of
Papirüs magazine together with
Cemal Süreya and
Ülkü Tamer, has published her essays, criticisms and book introductions in magazines such as
Yeni Dergi, and
Varlık. She won the
Sait Faik Story Award in 1979 with Yürekte Bukağı and in 1986 with Journey to Summer from her ten short story collections. Uyar's diaries, of which more than 60 translations have been published, have been published under the general title of "Gündökümü". Completing her undergraduate study at İstanbul University at the Department of Journal, she continued her writing career with translation, stories and articles in various journals. In her own writings, Tomris Uyar used the techniques of “interior monologue-dialogue” and “stream of consciousness”, and made experimental innovations. By using stream of consciousness, she not only reflected the inner worlds of their characters but also worked on thefluency by omitting certain punctuation marks to catch her readers’ attention. Uyar was a prolific writer of short stories, of which eleven volumes were published. She translated into Turkish works by authors including
Virginia Woolf,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Jorge Luis Borges,
Lewis Carroll,
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and
Gabriel García Márquez. In 1975 she and her husband
Turgut Uyar won a Turkish Language Society (
Türk Dil Kurumu) prize for their translation of
Lucretius' natural encyclopedia
De rerum natura (Evrenin yapısı, Istanbul 1974). In 1980 and 1987 she was one of two Turkish authors who were awarded the
Sait Faik Short Story Award. In 1987 she received the Theater Art Development Foundation's annual award in memory of actor Avni Dilligil, and in 2002 the
Dünya award for the best narrative volume of the year. In the same year she was awarded the
Sedat Simavi Literature Award. == Private life ==