Ahmet Şerif İzgören

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  Patañjali

  Patañjali (Devanāgarī पतञ्जलि) (fl. 150 BCE or 2nd c. BCE) is the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, an important collection of aphorisms on Yoga practice, and also the author of the Mahābhāṣya, a major commentary on Pāṇini's Ashtadhyayi. However, it is unlikely that these two works are that of the same author.
  
  In recent decades the Yoga Sutra has become quite popular worldwide for the precepts regarding practice of Raja Yoga and its philosophical basis. "Yoga" in traditional Hinduism involves inner contemplation, a rigorous system of meditation practice, ethics, metaphysics, and devotion to Brahman. At the same time, his Mahābhāṣya, which first foregrounded the notion of meaning as referring to categorization, remains an important treatise in San

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  Mehmet Berk Yaltırık

  19 Temmuz 1987’de doğdu. 2010’da Trakya Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Tarih bölümünden mezun oldu. Aynı üniversitede, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü’ne bağlı Tarih Anabilim Dalı’nda Genel Türk Tarihi alanında, “Moğolların Deşt-i Kıpçak Seferleri” teziyle yüksek lisansını tamamladı. Çeşitli internet sitesi ve fanzinlerde, araştırma yazıları ve hikâyeleri yayımlandı. FABİSAD’ın düzenlediği 2013 GİO Hikâye Yarışması’nda Kumarcı Bahattin adlı öykü ile dereceye girerek “Öykü Başarı Ödülü” ve Türkiye Bilişim Derneği’nin düzenlediği “TBD Bilimkurgu Öykü Yarışması 2013’de Hekim Maliguri’nin Acayiplikleri adlı öykü ile mansiyon kazandı. 2017’de Yedikuleli Mansur romanıyla GİO Roman Ödülleri’nde dereceye girerek “Başarı Ödülü” aldı. 2019’da Istrancalı A

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  Jack London

  John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
  
  London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
  
  His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and Wh

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  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita , published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
  
  He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run ), and The Days of the Turbins . He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
  
  Some of his works ( Flight , all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them tha

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  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by correcting and expanding Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world.
  
  He was the son of author Johanna Schopenhauer and the older brother of Adele Schopenhauer.
  

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  Alexander Pushkin

  Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.
  
  See also:
  Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
  French: Alexandre Pouchkine
  Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin
  Spanish:Aleksandr Pushkin
  
  People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.
  
  Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the

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  Thomas Mann

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  See also:
  Serbian: Tomas Man
  
  Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important

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  Stefan Zweig

  Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
  Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
  Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu

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  Sabahattin Ali

  Sabahattin Ali (February 25, 1907 – April 2, 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.
  
  He was born in 1907 in Eğridere township (now Ardino in southern Bulgaria) of the Sanjak of Gümülcine (now Komotini in northern Greece), in the Ottoman Empire. He lived in Istanbul, Çanakkale and Edremit before he entered the School of Education in Balıkesir. Then, he was transferred to the School of Education in Istanbul, where he graduated in 1926. After serving as a teacher in Yozgat for one year, he earned a fellowship from the Ministry of National Education and studied in Germany from 1928 to 1930. When he returned to Turkey, he taught German language in high schools at Aydın and Konya.
  
  While he was serving as a teacher in

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  Ágota Kristóf

  Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
  
  Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio

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  Latife Tekin

  Latife Tekin is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. She was born in 1957 in Kayseri, Turkey. She continued her education in Istanbul. In 1983, her famous novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (Dear Shameless Death) was published. The magic realism in the book was drawn from the Anatolian folklore and traditions. Latife Tekin's childhood in Kayseri, a multicultural city at a central point in Anatolia, influenced both her first book and the others in this aspect.
  
  

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  Sait Faik Abasıyanık

  Sait Faik Abasıyanık (18 November 1906 - 11 May 1954) was one of the greatest Turkish writers of short stories and poetry. Born in Adapazarı, he was educated at the Istanbul Erkek Lisesi. He enrolled in the Turcology Department of Istanbul University in 1928, but under pressure from his father went to Switzerland to study economics in 1930. He left school and lived for three years in Grenoble, France - an experience which made a deep impact on his art and character. After returning to Turkey he taught Turkish in Halıcıoğlu Armenian School for Orphans, and tried to follow his father's wishes and go into business but was unsuccessful. He devoted his life to writing after 1934. He created a brand new language and brought new life to Turkish sh

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  Jules Verne

  Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
  
  This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
  
  Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
  
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  Gülse Birsel

  Gülse Birsel is a Turkish comedian, writer, screenwriter and actress.
  
  She attended Beyoğlu Anadolu High school and got a degree in economics at Boğaziçi University. She started working for Aktüel magazine as a correspondent in her second year as an undergraduate. Finally, she graduated from Boğaziçi University as an economist and began working for Aktüel magazine as an editor in 1994. She went to New York and studied for a master's degree in the film program of Columbia University's School of the Arts.
  
  She was first noticed through her articles in Turkish newspapers, titled "Metropol Manzaraları" (Views of the Metropolis, "Metropolis" is actually Istanbul), with her easily noticed funny touches of city life. She later presented a comedy show

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  Alejandro Zambra

  Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He is the author of Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, Ways of Going Home, My Documents, Multiple Choice, Not to Read, Chilean Poet and Childish Literature. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's, Zoetrope, and McSweeney’s, among other places.

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  Ayşe Kulin

  Ayşe Kulin is a Turkish contemporary novelist and columnist.
  Kulin graduated in literature from the American College for Girls in Arnavutköy. She released a collection of short stories titled Güneşe Dön Yüzünü in 1984. A short story from this called Gülizar was made into a film titled Kırık Bebek in 1986, for which she won a screenplay award from the Turkish culture ministry. Kulin worked as a screen writer, cinematographer and producer for many films, television series and advertisements. In 1986, she won the Best Cinematographer Award from the Theatre Writers association for her work in the television series Ayaşlı ve Kiracıları.
  
  In 1996, she wrote a biography of Münir Nureddin Selçuk titled Bir Tatlı Huzur. With a short story called Foto S

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  Yaşar Kemal

  Yaşar Kemal, asıl adı Kemal Sadık Gökçeli. Van Gölü’ne yakın Ernis (bugün Ünseli) köyünden olan ailesinin Birinci Dünya Savaşı’ndaki Rus işgali yüzünden uzun bir göç süreci sonunda yerleştiği Osmaniye’nin Kadirli ilçesine bağlı Hemite köyünde 1926’da doğdu. Doğum yılı bazı biyografilerde 1923 olarak geçer.
  
  Ortaokulu son sınıf öğrencisiyken terk ettikten sonra ırgat kâtipliği, ırgatbaşılık, öğretmen vekilliği, kütüphane memurluğu, traktör sürücülüğü, çeltik tarlalarında kontrolörlük yaptı. 1940’lı yılların başlarında Pertev Naili Boratav, Abidin Dino ve Arif Dino gibi sol eğilimli sanatçı ve yazarlarla ilişki kurdu; 17 yaşındayken siyasi nedenlerle ilk tutukluluk deneyimini yaşadı. 1943’te bir folklor derlemesi olan ilk kitabı Ağıtlar’ı yayım

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  Engin Geçtan

  Uzmanlık alanı psikiyatri olan Engin Geçtan 1975-1987 yılları arasında meslek dışı okuyucular tarafından da ilgiyle karşılanan dört kitap yazdı. Çok sayıda basım yapmış ve yapmakta olan, kendi bilimsel disipliniyle ilgili bu dörtlünün ardından (İnsan Olmak, Varoluşçu Psikiyatri, Normaldışı Davranışlar ve Psikanaliz ve Sonrası), psikiyatri alanının çerçevesinden çıkma isteği doğrultusunda roman-senaryo çalışmalarına başladı. Ankara ve İstanbul'daki dört üniversitede öğretim üyeliği yaptı ve psikoterapist olarak çalıştı.

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  Mahir Ünsal Eriş

  1980’de Çanakkale’de doğdu. Arkeoloji ve tarih okudu. Hayatını çeviriler yaparak ve yazarak sürdürüyor. Gençlerbirliklidir; söylenişi bile güzel. Kitapları: Bangır Bangır Ferdi Çalıyor Evde... (2012), (book: Olduğu Kadar Güzeldik] (2013) (60. Sait Faik Hikâye Armağanı), Dünya Bu Kadar (2015), Benim Adım Feridun (2016), Öbürküler (2017). Kara Yarısı (2019), Sarıyaz (2019), Diğerleri (2020), Gaip (2022), Babil Kulesi Kitabı (2023), Acaip (2023), Tatil Kitabı (2024), Bin 9 Yüz Seksen 3

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  Haldun Dormen

  Türk oyuncu ve yönetmen
  Babası, Kıbrıslı aydın bir işadamı olan Sait Ömer Bey, annesi İstanbullu bir paşa kızı olan Nimet Rüştü Hanım'dır. Bir yaşına basmadan, ailesi İstanbul, Şişli’ye yerleşti. Sahneye ilk defa Galatasaray Lisesi’nde ortaokul öğrencisi iken çıktı. Lise öğrenimini Robert Kolej’de tamamladı.[3] Sekiz yaşında geçirdiği bir kaza sonucu sol ayağı sakatlandı.
  
  Tiyatro eğitimini ABD’de Yale Üniversitesi’nde aldı.[3] İstanbul’a döndüğünde önce Muhsin Ertuğrul yönetimindeki Küçük Sahne'ye girdi ve Cinayet Var adlı oyundaki dedektif rolüyle ilk kez seyirci karşısına çıktı. Bir buçuk yıl Muhsin Ertuğrul ile çalıştıktan sonra Beyoğlu Parmak sokağın arkasında 60 kişilik bir salonu olan Cep Tiyatrosu'nu kurdu. 1957’de Papaz Kaçtı komedisi

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  Selçuk Aydemir

  1982 yılında İstanbul'da doğdu. İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi'nden uçak mühendisi olarak mezun oldu. Üsküdar'a Giderken, İşler Güçler, Kardeş Payı dizilerinin yanı sıra Çalgı Çengi ve Düğün Dernek filmlerinin de senaristi ve yönetmenidir. Mahalleden Arkadaşlar yazarın yayımlanan ilk kitabıdır.

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  Zülfü Livaneli

  Müzisyen, Yazar, Yönetmen, Politikacı.
  
  Tam adı Ömer Zülfü Livaneli’dir. 1946 yılında Konya-Ilgın’da doğan Livaneli, yazarlık kimliğinin yanında saygın bir müzisyendir. Müziği ile birçok ulusal ve uluslararası ödül almış ve eserleri John Baez, Maria Farandouri gibi sanatçılar tarafından yorumlanmıştır. Kültür, sanat ve politika alanında Türkiye’nin önemli isimlerinden birisi olan sanatçı, sanat yaşamı boyunca 300’e yakın besteye ve 30 film müziğine imzasını attı.
  
  Bugüne kadar üç uzun metrajlı film yönetti; "Yer Demir Gök Bakır", "Sis" ve "Şahmeran". Valencia Film Festivali'nde "Altın Palmiye" ve 1989'da Montpelier Film Festivali'nde "Altın Antigone" ödülüne layık görüldü. "Sis", "En iyi Avrupa Film Ödülü"ne aday gösterildi. Sanatçının filmleri

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  Beyhan Budak

  İlköğretim ve lise eğitimini Ankara’da alan Beyhan Budak üniversite eğitimini İstanbul Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümü’nde tamamlamıştır.
  
  Üniversite eğitimi sonrasında ilk yüksek lisans eğitimini Gazi Üniversitesi Psikolojik Danışma ve Rehberlik Bölümü’nde yapmıştır. Romantik ilişkiler üzerine yüksek lisans tezini hazırlamıştır. İkinci yüksek lisansını “Klinik Psikoloji” alanında İstanbul Esenyurt Üniversitesi’nde tamamlamıştır. Beyhan Budak evli ve iki çocuk babasıdır.
  
  Uzun yıllar T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı’na bağlı bir hastanede çalıştıktan sonra istifa etmiştir ve psikoterapi ve eğitim çalışmalarına kurucusu olduğu merkezde devam etmektedir.
  
  2018 yılında Tedx Kaleiçi etkinliğinde, “O Satın Aldığın Şey Mutluluk Değil!” isimli bir konuşma yapan Be

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  Victoria Forester

  Victoria grew up on a remote farm in Ontario, Canada. After graduating from the University of Toronto, her passion for storytelling led her to write and direct a short film for the CBC. When her next film was completed (The Pony’s Tale which aired on Global Television) she eagerly, and perhaps rashly, set off to Los Angeles.
  
  The famous independent film producer, Roger Corman, mentored Victoria and gave her the opportunity to write and direct her first feature film, Circuit Breaker for Showtime starring Richard Grieco and Corben Bernsen.
  
  This was soon followed by Macon County Jail with David Carradine and Ally Sheedy, and Cry of the White Wolf for the Disney Channel. Next Victoria directed Teen Scorcery, a fun story about mischievous teenage

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  Haldun Dormen

  Türk oyuncu ve yönetmen
  Babası, Kıbrıslı aydın bir işadamı olan Sait Ömer Bey, annesi İstanbullu bir paşa kızı olan Nimet Rüştü Hanım'dır. Bir yaşına basmadan, ailesi İstanbul, Şişli’ye yerleşti. Sahneye ilk defa Galatasaray Lisesi’nde ortaokul öğrencisi iken çıktı. Lise öğrenimini Robert Kolej’de tamamladı.[3] Sekiz yaşında geçirdiği bir kaza sonucu sol ayağı sakatlandı.
  
  Tiyatro eğitimini ABD’de Yale Üniversitesi’nde aldı.[3] İstanbul’a döndüğünde önce Muhsin Ertuğrul yönetimindeki Küçük Sahne'ye girdi ve Cinayet Var adlı oyundaki dedektif rolüyle ilk kez seyirci karşısına çıktı. Bir buçuk yıl Muhsin Ertuğrul ile çalıştıktan sonra Beyoğlu Parmak sokağın arkasında 60 kişilik bir salonu olan Cep Tiyatrosu'nu kurdu. 1957’de Papaz Kaçtı komedisi

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