Nilgün Marmara was born on 13 February 1958, in Moda, Istanbul, as one of the two daughters of a Bulgarian Turk immigrant family.

Although he worked as a secretariat in different companies and as a civil servant in the Egyptian Consulate, her business life did not last long.

After her suicide, Ece Ayhan wrote in her poem titled Meşhur Öğrenci Anıtı (The Monument to the Unknown Student), "Don't mind 128!

"[3][4] Cezmi Ersöz, on the other hand, wrote and dedicated the book titled Forty Years, You Are Like One After His death.

"[7] The book titled Red Brown Notebook, published after Nilgün Marmara's death, created a great controversy.

Although the book says that Nilgün Marmara published her diaries, the only quote about her time in Libya was "Kağan is a dirty lecherous piece of shit, he goes to bars every day.

"[8] and the book's biggest problem was how it portrayed her "Due to the way the book was edited and how omitting it was, Nilgün Marmara was falsely portrayed to be someone who is in great pain, only thinking of death and seldom poetry, has a sullen face, is cynical, and consequently was just her suicide, has not lived, basically someone who has not existed up until her suicide"[9] It was published by Everest Publishing in 2016 with the following back cover letter, including the facsimile of the diary: "The Notebooks, which have been published in full with the aim of putting an end to the series of misunderstandings, groundless suspicions, injustices and extreme comments that started since the diaries that Nilgün Marmara left behind were published without permission under the title Red Brown Notebook, removes the question marks about Nilgün Marmara.

With Notebooks, "The speculations, fake news and false slanders revolving around the name Marmara are coming to an end.

The notebooks also reveal a different portrait of Nilgün Marmara from the one known and assumed, by reflecting her view of daily life, her surroundings and relationships.