Firat Sunel is currently the Turkish Ambassador to India Nepal and Bhutan. He is an international lawyer, a career diplomat and an author. Sunel’s published novels in Turkish are Izmirli my last love, the Lighthouse Family and In the Shade of the Weeping Willows which inspired a TV series. His novels have been translated into more than ten languages include Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil in India. The Lighthouse Family is published by Penguin India in 2024.