Lale Gül was born in 1997 in Amsterdam and is a writer and columnist for the Dutch newspaper Het Parool. Until the age of seventeen, she attended a Koranic school run by the Milli Görüs Foundation at the weekends, then she studied Dutch Language and Literature at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Her autofictional debut novel, I Will Live, was published in Dutch in 2021 and became an international bestseller. In 2024 she published a second book, I Am Free, which was also an instant bestseller. She has won numerous prizes, including the NS Publieksprijs, the Euregio Literature Prize, the Pim Fortuyn Prize and Dutchman of the Year.

I Will Live is an electrifying book, alive with the far ranging effects of following the clarion call to freedom. Gül's is a singular voice, one demanding our fullest attention