İskender Pala (born 1958, in Turkey) is a Turkish Divan (Ottoman) Poetry Professor and author of best seller novels.

[1] İskender Pala graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Letters Turkish Language and Literature Department in 1979.

He oversaw classification and restoration of many historic documents dated from the times of the Ottoman Empire.

He published Encyclopedic Dictionary of Divan (Ottoman) Poetry [2] and received Writers Union of Turkey Award in 1989.

In 1975 he was accepted to İstanbul University Faculty of Letters Turkish Language and Literature Department and graduated in 1979.

After graduation he was working in the department's seminary library as a clerk and waiting for an open teaching assistantship position.

Luckily, the Navy put an advertisement about hiring a literature teacher as an officer in the newspaper again in 1981.

D. in Classic Turkish Litreture at Istanbul University Vocational School of Social Sciences.