Nermin Mollaoğlu was born in 1975 in Bulgaria. She worked as a midwife and nurse and an English teacher for a while. She founded Kalem Copyright Agency in 2005. In addition to selling translation rights from foreign languages to Turkish, she successfully represented Turkish literature abroad and helped writers to be read in more than 50 languages. She is still actively working to revive Turkish literature in other languages. She has been organizing the ITEF - Istanbul International Literature Festival since 2009.