Arman Ratip

Arman Ratip was born in Cyprus. He is a Turkish Cypriot born into a musical family. He began his piano lessons with his mother Jale Derviş at the age of five. Ratip was a child prodigy. Later, he recorded two albums for EMI and became well-known in the UK. He performed in North Cyprus, Turkey and in Europe extensively. His far-reaching scope of contrasting transcendental improvisations and extraterrestrial themes are explored to a great depth with a high level of virtuosity. His "Space Music" is a timeless mystery. All trademarks of Ratip's Avant-Garde music.

Ratip's writing career can be summed up with the early beginnings of unpublished novels and short stories, which were later crowned with the publication of his first book "How to Play Backgammon" by Hamlyn in the UK. The backgammon game was a legacy from his father and grandfather. This book sold well both in the UK and in the USA. But Ratip was more or less obsessed with the aim of writing two fantasy fiction novels about his hero Turan Akova and his encounters with the Devil, novels depicting his research on UFOs. Thus, "The Devil's Feather" and "King Devil". One can always detect a parallel between his Space Music and his two novels on extraterrestrials.