M Caner Alper was born in Izmir in 1970 the second child of a family of four He remembers that he loved painting puppetry and dancing After completing high school at Izmir Turkish College he entered reluctantly Industrial Engineering and even he was surprised to graduate His interest in theater and cinema which started in his childhood turned into a love by performing on stage in middle and high school He tried to read many books and write short stories and screenplays He threw most of them away Before he started working in the textile industry as an engineer he worked as a cashier in restaurants as an animator in holiday resorts as a cabin attendant in airlines and as a subtitle translator for movies Halfway through he turned to reading writing documentaries and feature films In addition to about ten unproduced scripts he wrote and codirected Zenne 2012 Çekmeceler 2015 Lacrimosa 2020 with Mehmet Binay In addition to his story collection Bugün Bizde Temizlik Var 2004 memoir Temiz Aile Çocuğu 2019 plays Cam Boncuklar 2019 and Senede Bir Gün 2019 he has written for many magazines and newspapers She has a dog named Çilli and hopes for the future