Asli Erdoğan was born in 1967 in Istanbul. After studying computer science and physics, he went to Switzerland, where he did post-graduate work at the prestigious scientific center CERN. She lived in South America for two years; not finishing her doctoral dissertation, which she started in Rio de Janeiro, she decides to write. Her first novel, The Shell Man , was published in 1994, and the book of stories, Chudesni mandarin , in 1996. The story of the Wooden Bird won the first prize of the Deustche Welle. Her second novel The City in the Red Cape was published in 1998.

The French magazine Lire included Asli Erdoğan on the list of "50 writers who will mark the XXI century".