Mehmet Gündüz Coral (11 September 1946 – 15 April 2024) was a Turkish novelist, known for his novels with historical settings.
His works, such as Extinct Times of Byzantium (author house/USA 2000) and The Lost Diaries of Constantinople (DK Publishing 2008), are also translated to foreign languages.
[1] Coral was born in İzmir, Turkey to middle-class parents.
He grew up in İzmir, which is actually the ancient Smyrna, and very much influenced by the historical surroundings of his city and nearby locations like ancient Ephesus, Pergamum, Halicarnassus.
Following his spartan boarding school years in private colleges, he went on to study business administration and economics in Aegean University.