İhsan Oktay Anar (born 1960 in Yozgat, Turkey), is a Turkish writer, illustrator, literature translator and an academic.
In 2009, he won the Erdal Öz Literature Award "for his valuable novels and original style".
[1] Anar published his first novel, The Atlas of Misty Continents (Puslu Kıtalar Atlası) in 1995.
His novels are fantasy pieces supported by historical facts and rumors especially related to the Ottoman Empire and a narration resembling fairy tales.
He uses a mixture of Ottoman and folk terminology within his Turkish writings, giving references to myths and historical scriptures.