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ABOUT : Dilge Güney is a Turkish author of children’s and young adult literature. She began writing stories at the age of eight, soon discovering that writing was the best way to give shape to the many ideas filling her mind.
After graduating from high school in 1998, she moved to Istanbul to study law at Marmara University. During the years she spent in Istanbul as a student and later as a lawyer, writing remained a constant in her life. In 2008, after the birth of her son, her relationship with literature took a new direction. Inspired by the books she read to him and the stories they discovered together, she began writing for children.
With the guidance of writer and mentor Nevzat Süer Sezgin, her first children’s book Muti’nin Maceraları was published in 2015. A graduate of the Child Development program at Atatürk University, which she completed in 2021, she has also received training in storytelling, philosophy for children, and editorial processes, among many other fields. Since then, she has written eighteen books for children and young adults in the genres of stories and novels, and has frequently participated in literary projects, and children’s literature events. She lives in İzmir with her husband and son.
AWARDS: Her novel Mavi Yıldız received the 2018 Gülten Dayıoğlu Foundation Young Adult Novel Award, and Düdüklü Tencere Orkestrası received the 2021 Muzaffer İzgü Children’s Novel Award.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS: In 2025 and 2026, her books Piyon (The Pawn), İçimdeki Kurbağa (The Frog Inside Me), 1 GB Adalet (1 GB of Justice) reached readers in Korea, Slovenia, and France.
Frog Inside Me
Frog Inside Me
Can a frog live inside a person?
Everything starts with a terrible prank. Turna’s big brother convinces her that eggs in the river are miraculous fruits that makes you grow up faster. Turna is fed up with her big brother always treating her like a baby. So why not try one? Finally, she learns that the “miraculous fruit” is in fact a frog’s egg and does not help her grow up at all. Turna now has to live with a frog inside her.
The sweet emotions of the girl are described through a family story where we see the father struggling with the search of a new job. As Turna is going on with her daily life, we see how she describes her feelings with the frog. The frog jumps when she gets scared, tickles her tummy when she is excited, bites her stomach when she is jealous or hugs her hearth when she is sad.
KEY NOTES:
– Describes the emotions such as fear, embarrassment, jealousy, anger and joy that children frequently encounter, in a humorous way.
Rights sold: French, Slovenian, Portuguese (Brazil)
English translation is available.
Themes: Family Relationships, Growing Up, Knowing Yourself, Problem-Solving
8+, 104 pages, 13.5×19.5 cm
1 GB of Justice
1 GB of Justice
The power of justice cannot be measured in “gigabytes!”
In a dystopian future, a city is divided into two parts by sharp lines. At one end, Ethem struggles to survive on the border of the orange lines. At the other, Meto—a social media phenomenon robot built for advertising purposes—lives a completely different life. These two “children,” who would normally only meet in dreams, now find themselves as defendants in an extraordinary robbery case. Will the judicial system be able to maintain its impartiality in such a high-profile trial? In a society where justice is measured in “gigabytes,” who will be accused, and who will be acquitted?
KEY NOTES:
• Explores complex human-robot relations under the shadow of developing artificial intelligence technologies from multiple perspectives.
• Pushes readers into deep questioning about the criminal justice system, with a special focus on human rights and children’s rights.
Rights Sold: Korean
English translation is available.
Themes: Justice, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Robot Relations, Children’s Rights, Dystopia
Young Adult, 232 pages, 13.5×19.5 cm
The Pawn
The Pawn
A young girl wages war against a big company to protect the youth’s digital privacy.
In a dystopian future, the city is divided into districts, and those living inside the orange lines are neither safe nor lucky. Yasemin, a young immigrant girl from the Orange District, is desperately in need of money. When her best friend’s mother offers to pay her to spy on her daughter, she reluctantly agrees. That’s when she first hears about Pawn—an application designed for parents to secretly monitor their children, tracking all their social media activity and messages.
Without revealing her identity, Yasemin wages war against this violation of young people’s privacy, triggering a massive social media movement. But as she faces threats from powerful corporations, how will she succeed in stopping them?
KEY NOTES:
• A powerful story where a young immigrant girl takes on an application that monitors youth’s personal data and reports their private information to parents.
• In the age of social media, it raises questions about digital privacy for young people and the ethics of surveillance.
Rights Sold: Korean
English translation is available.
Themes: Digital Privacy, Social Media, Youth Empowerment, Dystopia
Young Adult, 192 pages, 13.5×19.5 cm
The Case of the Missing Ear
The Case of the Missing Ear
Vivi is ten years old and nobody knows where her ears are.
Vivi always braids her hair and everyone is curious about what is hidden beneath her hair. But she never lets anyone look at her ears. Could they really be missing?
After the kids in her class makes fun of her big ears, Vivi gets fed up with all the bullying and hides her ears by stuffing them inside. She will realize the power of imagination when she meets a doctor who also has big and pointy ears. A delightfully absurd story about a girl who is bullied at school and her parents who are obsessed with the new trends.
KEY NOTES:
• A delightfully absurd and quirky children’s novel.
• The theme of bullying is told in a humorous tone.
English translation is available.
English translation is available.
Themes: Bullying, Self-Acceptance, Body Image, Big Ears
8+, 64 pages, 13.5×19.5 cm
Anomaly
Anomaly
Who decides when childhood ends?
That is the question that lingers with the reader from the first page. Razka, Mu, Nastya and our heroine are four inseparable friends who live only to play – freely, fearlessly, and together. One ordinary day, during a cake fight, a scream breaks the joy. Then another. A towering figure with a fur-covered face appears before them. “Is that the anomaly?” they wonder. Some don’t even believe that there is such a thing. Yet kids disappear from the small town… one by one.
Anomaly draws readers into a mist-filled forest of unanswered questions. What is the anomaly? Why are these children living apart from the rest of the world? And what does it mean to grow up? As the fog slowly lifts, what emerges is a haunting and beautiful coming-of-age story… one that asks what we lose, and what we leave behind, as childhood fades.
KEY NOTES:
• Encourages discussion on play as a fundamental human need rather than a childish habit.
• A poetic coming-of-age novel that explores the fragile border between childhood and adulthood through metaphor and imagination.
English translation is available.
Themes: Childhood and Growing Up, Loss of Innocence, Friendship
9+, 104 pages, 13.5×19.5 cm
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