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  Tom Robbins

  Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). Robbins lived in La Conner, Washington from 1970, where he wrote nine of his books. His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His last work, published in 2014, was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-declared "un-memoir".

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  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
  Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, W

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  Orhan Pamuk

  Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
  Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red and Snow. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
  Of partial Circassian descent and born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate. He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards. My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix

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  John Fowles

  John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex. He recalled the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Of his childhood, Fowles said "I have tried to escape ever since."
  
  Fowles attended Bedford School, a large boarding school designed to prepare boys for university, from ages 13 to 18. After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came near combat, and by 1947 he had decided that the military life was not for him.
  
  Fowles then spent four years at Oxford, where he discov

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  Gabriel García Márquez

  Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  
  He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr

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  Richard Bach

  
  Since Jonathan Livingston Seagull - which dominated the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for two consecutive years - Richard Bach has touched millions of people through his humor, wisdom and insight.
  
  With over 60 million copies of his books sold, Richard Bach remains one of the world's most beloved authors. A former USAF fighter pilot, Air Force captain and latter-day barnstorming pilot, Bach continues to be an avid aviator-author, exploring and chronicling the joys and freedom of flying, reporting his findings to readers.
  
  His most recent works include Travels with Puff, which recounts Bach's journey from Florida to Washington state in his small seaplane, Puff, and Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant S

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  Amin Maalouf

  Amin Maalouf (Arabic: أمين معلوف; alternate spelling Amin Maluf) is a Lebanese journalist and novelist. He writes and publishes primarily in French.
  
  Most of Maalouf's books have a historical setting, and like Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Maalouf mixes fascinating historical facts with fantasy and philosophical ideas. In an interview Maalouf has said that his role as a writer is to create "positive myths". Maalouf's works, written with the skill of a master storyteller, offer a sensitive view of the values and attitudes of different cultures in the Middle East, Africa and Mediterranean world.

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  Adam Fawer

  Adam Fawer (born 1970 in New York City) is an American Novelist. Improbable, his first novel, has been translated into more than five languages and won the 2006 International Thriller Writers Award for best first novel. His second novel, Empathy, has been published in 2008 in German, Japanese and Turkish.
  
  Fawer holds undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. During his corporate career, Fawer worked for a variety of companies including Sony Music, J.P. Morgan, and most recently, About.com, where he was the chief operating officer.
  
  Fawer lives in New York with his partner and two sons.

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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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  Yu Hua

  Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people’s mouths the whole day." Writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible.[citation needed] He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. One of the distinctive characteristics of his work is his penchant for detailed descriptions of brutal violence.
  
  Yu Hua has written four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His most important novels are Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and To Liv

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  Peyami Safa

  1899 yılında İstanbul’da doğar. Servet-i Fünun dönemi şairlerinden İsmail Safa'nın oğludur. Sivas'a sürgüne gönderilen babasının orada ölmesi üzerine 1901 yılında iki yaşında yetim kalmış, bu yüzden "Yetim-i Safa" adıyla anılmıştır. Babasız büyümenin acılarının yanı sıra, sekiz dokuz yaşlarında yakalandığı bir kemik hastalığı dolayısıyla çocukluk ve ilk gençlik yılları hastane koridorlarında geçmiştir. Bilahare bu günlerini eserlerine soğukkanlı bir ciddiyetle yansıtacaktır.
  
  Hastalık ve savaşın yol açtığı maddî sıkıntılar dolayısıyla öğrenimini sürdüremez, babasının arkadaşı olan Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem Marif Nazırlığına veda edince onu Galatasaray Lisesi'nde okutma vaadini yerine getiremez. Peyami hayatını kazanmak ve annesine bakmak için V

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  Giuliano da Empoli

  Giuliano da Empoli è un saggista e consigliere politico italiano e svizzero che vive a Parigi, dove insegna politica comparata a Sciences-Po. Nato in Francia, è cresciuto in diversi paesi europei, si è laureato in Giurisprudenza all'Università La Sapienza di Roma e ottenuto il master in Scienze Politiche all'Institut d'études politiques di Parigi. E'presidente del think tank Volta.

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  Nihat Behram

  Born Mustafa Nihat Behramoğlu.
  He is the brother of poet Ataol Behramoğlu.
  
  Nihat Behram, Türk gazeteci, şair ve yazar.
  Gazetecilik Yüksek Okulu'nu bitirdi. İlk şiiri 1967'de yayımlandı. 1975'te ağabeyi Ataol Behramoğlu ile birlikte Militan dergisini ve 1979'da Yılmaz Güney ile birlikte Halkın Dostları dergisini çıkardı. 1972'de çıkardığı ilk şiir kitabı olan Hayatımız Üstüne Şiirler kitabı yasaklandı ve yazdıklarından ötürü 12 Mart Dönemi'nde iki yıl askeri cezaevinde tutuklu olarak yattı.
  
  Cezaevinden çıktından sonra bir süre gazetecilikle uğraştı. Vatan gazetesinde ele aldığı Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan ve Hüseyin İnan'ın yaşamlarını ve mücadelelerini anlatan yazı dizisi, çok ilgi görünce Darağacında Üç Fidan adıyla kitaplaştırıldı. Bu yazı diz

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  Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  An American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist who was raised in now nearly vanished oral and ethnic traditions. She is a first-generation American who grew up in a rural village, population 600, near the Great Lakes. Of Mexican mestiza and majority Magyar and minority Swabian tribal heritages, she comes from immigrant and refugee families who could not read or write, or who did so haltingly. Much of her writing is influenced by her family people who were farmers, shepherds, hopsmeisters, wheelwrights, weavers, orchardists, tailors, cabinet makers, lacemakers, knitters, and horsemen and horsewomen from the Old Countries.

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  Irvin D. Yalom

  Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
  
  Born in a Jewish family in Washington DC in 1931, he grew up in a poor ethnic area. Avoiding the perils of his neighborhood, he spent most of his childhood indoors, reading books. After graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and as a Doctor of Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine in 1956 he went on to complete his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his training in 1960. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital i

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  Antoni Casas Ros

  Born in French Catalonia in 1972. "Le théorème d'Almodovar" was his first novel published by Gallimard in January 2008, by Seix Barral (Spain) in March and then by Guanda Italy. His next book, "Mort au romantisme", a collection of short stories was published by Gallimard in 2009.

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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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  Erdal Öz

  Erdal Öz (26 Mart 1935 - 6 Mayıs 2006), Türk yazar ve yayıncısı.
  
  1935'te Sivas'ın Yıldızeli ilçesinde doğdu. 1953'te Tokat Lisesi'ni bitirdi. 1969'da Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’nden mezun oldu. Türk Dil Kurumu Yayın Kolu’nda görev aldı. Türk Sinematek Derneği Ankara Şubesi'nde çalıştı.
  
  12 Mart 1971 sonrasında üç kez tutuklandı. Yargılama sonucu aklandı. Tutuklu olduğu sürede Deniz Gezmiş ve Yusuf Aslan gibi devrimci gençlerle tanıştı ve onların öykülerini yazdı.
  
  Cem Yayınevi’nin çocuk kitapları dizisini yönetti. 1980 yılında Can Yayınları'nı kurdu.
  
  Edebiyat yaşamına şiirle girdi. Rasgele isimli ilk şiiri İstanbul’daki Kaynak dergisinde 1952'de yayınlandı. Seçilmiş Hikâyeler Dergisi, Varlık, Yenilik, Yeditepe, Pazar Postası, a, Değişim,

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  Reşat Nuri Güntekin

  Reşat Nuri Güntekin (Istanbul, 25 November 1889 - London, 13 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter and playwright. His novel, Çalıkuşu ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia; the movie was filmed on this book in 1966, and remade as TV series in 1986. His narrative has a detailed and precise style, with a realistic tone. His other significant novels include Yeşil Gece ("Green Night") and Yaprak Dökümü ("The Fall Of Leaves")
  
  Biography
  
  His father was a major in the army. Reşat Nuri attended primary school in Çanakkale, the Çanakkale Secondary School and the İzmir School of Freres. He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature in 1912. He worked as a teacher and administra

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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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  Nihat Behram

  Born Mustafa Nihat Behramoğlu.
  He is the brother of poet Ataol Behramoğlu.
  
  Nihat Behram, Türk gazeteci, şair ve yazar.
  Gazetecilik Yüksek Okulu'nu bitirdi. İlk şiiri 1967'de yayımlandı. 1975'te ağabeyi Ataol Behramoğlu ile birlikte Militan dergisini ve 1979'da Yılmaz Güney ile birlikte Halkın Dostları dergisini çıkardı. 1972'de çıkardığı ilk şiir kitabı olan Hayatımız Üstüne Şiirler kitabı yasaklandı ve yazdıklarından ötürü 12 Mart Dönemi'nde iki yıl askeri cezaevinde tutuklu olarak yattı.
  
  Cezaevinden çıktından sonra bir süre gazetecilikle uğraştı. Vatan gazetesinde ele aldığı Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan ve Hüseyin İnan'ın yaşamlarını ve mücadelelerini anlatan yazı dizisi, çok ilgi görünce Darağacında Üç Fidan adıyla kitaplaştırıldı. Bu yazı diz

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  Erdal Öz

  Erdal Öz (26 Mart 1935 - 6 Mayıs 2006), Türk yazar ve yayıncısı.
  
  1935'te Sivas'ın Yıldızeli ilçesinde doğdu. 1953'te Tokat Lisesi'ni bitirdi. 1969'da Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’nden mezun oldu. Türk Dil Kurumu Yayın Kolu’nda görev aldı. Türk Sinematek Derneği Ankara Şubesi'nde çalıştı.
  
  12 Mart 1971 sonrasında üç kez tutuklandı. Yargılama sonucu aklandı. Tutuklu olduğu sürede Deniz Gezmiş ve Yusuf Aslan gibi devrimci gençlerle tanıştı ve onların öykülerini yazdı.
  
  Cem Yayınevi’nin çocuk kitapları dizisini yönetti. 1980 yılında Can Yayınları'nı kurdu.
  
  Edebiyat yaşamına şiirle girdi. Rasgele isimli ilk şiiri İstanbul’daki Kaynak dergisinde 1952'de yayınlandı. Seçilmiş Hikâyeler Dergisi, Varlık, Yenilik, Yeditepe, Pazar Postası, a, Değişim,

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  İsmail Cem

  İsmail Cem was a Turkish social democratic politician, journalist, statesman and former minister of foreign affairs.

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