Perihan Mağden is a Turkish writer born in 1960 in Istanbul. Her latest novel Ali and Ramazan was published in 2010 in Turkish and has been available in English since 2012. tells the story of two teenager gay boys, one shy and withdrawn, the other outgoing and popular, who are drawn to each other, forming an intense friendship in a male-dominated, materialistic, and oppressive situation. when they turn 18, they're released onto Istanbul's mean streets. Life is difficult for them, and all they have is their intense devotion to each other.
