Pınar Kür was born in
Bursa on 15 April 1943. Kür was the daughter of
İsmet Kür (1916–2013), who was an educator, journalist, columnist and writer of mainly
children's literature, and
Azerbaijani Behram Kür, a French and mathematics teacher. Her maternal aunt
Halide Nusret Zorlutuna (1901–1984) was a poet. In 1969 Kür earned a doctorate at the
Sorbonne University in Paris, with a thesis on “Reality and Illusion in Twentieth Century Theatre”. Kür was considered a leading Turkish novelist. Kür published her first stories in the magazine
Dost in 1971, and then published stories widely in newspapers and magazines such as
Cumhuriyet,
Yazko-Edebiyat, Hürriyet Gösteri, and
Milliyet Sanat Magazine. She died on 15 July 2025, at the age of 82. She had been ailing for some time and had been receiving hospital treatment in
Istanbul. On 17 July 2025, after the funeral ceremony at the
Teşvikiye Mosque, she was interred at the Ayazağa Cemetery in Istanbul. == Works ==