Ayşe Şasa was born in İstanbul, in 1941. She graduated from Arnavutköy American Girls College in 1960. Şasa continued studying Social Sciences at Robert College between 1963 and 1965. She wrote screenplays for Turkish cinema since 1963. Some of her screenplays are Murat’ın Türküsü, Ah Güzel İstanbul and Gramafon Avrat. She published her essays on cinema in 1993. Her book, Notes from the Country of Insanity, was published in February 2003.