Köksal Alver

Koksal Alver (Turkish: Köksal Alver) was born in Narman, a town and district of Erzurum, Turkey in 1970. He is well-known among the Turkish sociologists, cultural theorists and short story writers in the country. Alver's works are primarily concerned with cultural dynamics, sociology of space, rural sociology and also a renowned expert in sociology of literature as a subfield of the sociology of culture. In addition, his works of literature show particular character of traditional styles from Ottoman poetry which is composed into narrative styles of his own.