Cemal Süreya
He graduated from the Political Sciences Faculty of Ankara University. He was the editor-in-chief of the Papirus literary magazine. Cemal Süreya is a notable member of the Second New Generation of Turkish poetry, an abstract and postmodern movement created as a backlash against the more popular-based Garip movement. Love, mainly through its erotic entity, is a popular theme of Süreya's works. Süreya's poems and articles were published in magazines like Yeditepe, Yazko, Pazar Postası, Yeni Ulus, Oluşum, Türkiye Yazıları, Politika, Aydınlık, and Somut.
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Ece Temelkuran, Turkish author, was born in 1973. She is a daily columnist of one of the most popular Turkish newspapers for ten years and a prize winning journalist. Her primary concerns that she addresses are the contemporary criticism of popular culture, masques of politics, women issues, and all other deteriorating identities of humanity. She uses various forms of dramatic sentimentalism and black humor together, combined with her postmodern style, creating space for tactful connections to everyday life. She is the author of three experimental literary fiction books written in the form of poem in prose, and a documentary book on hunger strikes. Lately she published two collections of articles from her column. Temelkuran is the pioneerin
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Özdemir Asaf
Özdemir Asaf Cumhuriyet dönemi Türk şairlerdendir.
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11 Haziran 1923 tarihinde Ankara'da doğdu. Asıl adı Halit Özdemir Arun'dur. Babası Mehmet Asaf Şura-ı Devlet'in kurucularındandır. Babasının öldüğü yıl, 1930, Galatasaray Lisesi'nin ilk kısmına girdi. 1941 yılında 11. sınıfta, bir ek sınavla Kabataş Erkek Lisesi'ne geçip 1942 yılında mezun oldu. Hukuk Fakültesi'ne, İktisat Fakültesi'ne (3. sınıfa kadar) ve bir yıl Gazetecilik Fakültesi'ne devam etti. Bu arada Tanin ve Zaman gazetelerinde çalıştı ve çeviriler yaptı. İlk yazısı Servet-i Fünun, Uyanış dergisinde çıktı. 1951 yılında Sanat Basımevi'ni kurdu ve kitaplarını Yuvarlak Masa Yayınları adı altında yayımladı. 28 Ocak 1981'de hayata veda etti. Özdemir Asaf'ın ilk eşi Sabahat Selma Tezakın -
Ahmet Altan
He was born 1950 in Ankara, Turkey to the notable journalist and writer Çetin Altan as the first of two sons. His brother Mehmet Altan is also a journalist, writer and university professor of economy politics.
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A working journalist for more than twenty years, he has served in all stages of the profession, from being a night shift reporter to editor in chief in various newspapers.
In addition to having written columns in several Turkish newspapers, including Hürriyet, Milliyet and Radikal, Altan has produced news programming for television. He worked as the editor in chief and lead columnist of Taraf, a daily Turkish newspaper, until he resigned from his post in 2012.
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Paulo Coelho
The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub
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Émile Zola
Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and playwright widely regarded as a key figure in the development of literary naturalism. His work profoundly influenced both literature and society through its commitment to depicting reality with scientific objectivity and exploring the impact of environment and heredity on human behavior. Born and raised in France, Zola experienced early personal hardship following the death of his father, which deeply affected his understanding of social and economic struggles—a theme that would later permeate his writings.
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Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
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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.
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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.
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Sabahattin Ali
Sabahattin Ali (February 25, 1907 – April 2, 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.
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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.
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Leo Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and soc
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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.
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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 -
Jean Teulé
Jean Teulé est un romancier français, qui a également pratiqué la bande dessinée, le cinéma et la télévision.
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Auteur de bande dessinée dans un premier temps, il a débuté à la télévision dans L'assiette anglaise de Bernard Rapp ou Nulle part ailleurs sur Canal+.
Homme de télévision, scénariste, comédien, cinéaste, il est avant tout écrivain. Ayant abandonné toute autre activité, il se consacre désormais à l’écriture. Il a publié, aux Éditions Julliard, Rainbow pour Rimbaud (1991), L'Œil de Pâques (1992), Ballade pour un père oublié (1995), Darling (1998) et Bord cadre (1999), Longues Peines, Les Lois de la gravité, Ô Verlaine ! (2004), Je, François Villon (2006), Le Magasin des suicides (2007). Finalement, en 2008 "Le Montespan". Tous ses livr -
İhsan Oktay Anar
Türk yazardır. Lisans, master ve doktora eğitimini Ege Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nde yaptı. Aynı okulda öğretim üyeliğinden emekli olmuştur.
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Her bir kitabının çok uzun araştırmalardan sonra yazıldığı içerdikleri ağır tarihi bilgi ile göze çarpar. Eserleri pek çok küçük hikâye etrafında örülmüş büyük bir roman biçimindedir.
Yazın biçim göndermeler içerir. Kabaca birkaç örnek vermek gerekirse Amat'taki İsrafil adlı çocuğun gemi borazancısı olup diriliş düdüğünü çalışı islamiyette kıyamet haberi olan borazanı çalacak meleğe, alt ambar toprak altına ve mezara göndermeler ya da modellemelerdir. Bu üslup okuyucuyu hem yetiştirir, hem geliştirir. Umberto Eco bu biçimde gelişen okuru ampirik okurdan ayırmaktadır. Her gerçek yazar aslında bu tip inc -
Turgut Uyar
Turgut Uyar (1927-1985) Served as an army officer from 1948 to 1958. One of the first poets to react against the simplicity propounded by the practitioners of the "First New" movement, Uyar used daring imagery and complicated figures of speech in his poetry. Major poetry collections: Dunyanin En Guzel Arabistani (The Most Beautiful Arabia of the World/1959), Tutunler Islak (The Tobacco Is Wet/1962 - winner of the Yeditepe Poetry Award), Kayayi Delen Incir (The Fig That Split the Rock/1981 - winner of the Necatigil Poetry Award).
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Ahmed Arif
Ahmed Arif (1927-1991) Studied philosophy at Ankara University. His education was interrupted by several political arrests. Published in various literary journals, his poems were widely read due to their original lyricism and imagery influenced by Anatolian folk cultures. He has published only one collection of poetry: Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim (Fetters Worn Out by Longing/1968) – a volume which has gone through a record number of printings.
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Yusuf Atılgan
Yusuf Atılgan (27 June 1921, Manisa - 9 October 1989, İstanbul) was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) and Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel). He is one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel.
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Atılgan is considered as one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel. His novels had a psychological style, digging into themes such as loneliness, questioning, meaning of life.
Atılgan finished middle school in Manisa, then high school in Balıkesir. He graduated in Turkish language and literature from İstanbul University. He finished his thesis titled Tokatlı Kani: Sanat, şahsiyet ve psikoloji under supervision of Nihat Tarlan. Atılgan then began teaching literature at Maltepe Askeri Lise -
Orhan Veli Kanık
Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli (14 April 1914 – 14 November 1950) was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet. Aiming to fundamentally transform traditional form in Turkish poetry, he introduced colloquialisms into the poetic language. Besides his poetry Kanık crammed an impressive volume of works including essays, articles and translations into 36 short years.
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Orhan Veli shunned everything old in order to be able to bring about a new 'taste', refusing to use syllable and aruz meters. He professed to regarding the rhyme primitive, literary rhetoric techniques such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole unnecessary. Set out "to do away with all tradition, everything that bygone lit -
Didem Madak
İzmir doğumlu (1970-23 Temmuz 2011). Liseyi İzmir'de tamamladı. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'ni bitirdi. İlk şiirleri Sombahar ve Ludingirra dergilerinde yayımlandı. İlk kitabı Grapon Kâğıtları (2000) ile İnkılâp Kitabevi Şiir Ödülü'nü aldı. Sonraki yıllarda iki kitabı daha yayımlandı: Ah’lar Ağacı (Everest, 2002) ve Pulbiber Mahallesi (Metis, 2007). 2008'de kızı Füsun dünyaya geldi. Kanser nedeniyle 41 yaşına yaşamını yitiren şair Didem Madak'ın naaşı Edirnekapı'da defnedildi.
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Nâzım Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet was born on January 15, 1902 in Salonika, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloníki, Greece), where his father served in the Foreign Service. He was exposed to poetry at an early age through his artist mother and poet grandfather, and had his first poems published when he was seventeen.
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Raised in Istanbul, Hikmet left Allied-occupied Turkey after the First World War and ended up in Moscow, where he attended the university and met writers and artists from all over the world. After the Turkish Independence in 1924 he returned to Turkey, but was soon arrested for working on a leftist magazine. He managed to escape to Russia, where he continued to write plays and poems.
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Ahmed Arif
Ahmed Arif (1927-1991) Studied philosophy at Ankara University. His education was interrupted by several political arrests. Published in various literary journals, his poems were widely read due to their original lyricism and imagery influenced by Anatolian folk cultures. He has published only one collection of poetry: Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim (Fetters Worn Out by Longing/1968) – a volume which has gone through a record number of printings.
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Orhan Veli Kanık
Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli (14 April 1914 – 14 November 1950) was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet. Aiming to fundamentally transform traditional form in Turkish poetry, he introduced colloquialisms into the poetic language. Besides his poetry Kanık crammed an impressive volume of works including essays, articles and translations into 36 short years.
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Orhan Veli shunned everything old in order to be able to bring about a new 'taste', refusing to use syllable and aruz meters. He professed to regarding the rhyme primitive, literary rhetoric techniques such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole unnecessary. Set out "to do away with all tradition, everything that bygone lit -
Attilâ İlhan
Attilâ İlhan was born in Menemen in İzmir Province, Turkey on 15 June 1925. He received most of his primary education in İzmir. However, because of his father's job, he completed his junior high school education in different cities. Aged 16 and enrolled in İzmir Atatürk High School, he got into trouble for sending a poem by Nazım Hikmet, a famous dissident communist Turkish poet, to a girl he was in love with. He was arrested and taken into custody for three weeks. He was also dismissed from school and jailed for two months. After his imprisonment, İlhan was forbidden from attending any schools in Turkey, thus interrupting his education.
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Lâle Müldür
1956'da Aydın'da doğdu. Liseyi Robert Kolej’de bitirdi. Şiir bursu alarak Floransa’ya gitti. Türkiye’ye dönerek birer yıl ODTÜ Elektronik ve Ekonomi bölümlerine devam etti. 1977’de İngiltere’ye gitti: Manchester Üniversitesi Ekonomi Bölümü’nden lisansını, Essex Üniversitesi Edebiyat Sosyolojisi Bölümü’nden master derecesini aldı. 1983-1987 yılları arasında Brüksel’de yaşadı: Ressam Patrick Clays ile on iki yıl evli kaldı. 14 Aralık 2002’de beyin kanaması geçirdi, iki ay hastanede yattı.
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İlk şiirleri 1980’de Yazı ve Yeni İnsan dergilerinde çıktı. Gösteri, Defter, Şiir Atı, Oluşum, Mor Köpük, Yönelişler, Sombahar ve kitap-lık dergilerinde birçok şiir ve yazısı yayımlandı. Bir dönem Radikal gazetesinde yazdı. Şiirlerinden bazıları (“Destina”, -
Turgut Uyar
Turgut Uyar (1927-1985) Served as an army officer from 1948 to 1958. One of the first poets to react against the simplicity propounded by the practitioners of the "First New" movement, Uyar used daring imagery and complicated figures of speech in his poetry. Major poetry collections: Dunyanin En Guzel Arabistani (The Most Beautiful Arabia of the World/1959), Tutunler Islak (The Tobacco Is Wet/1962 - winner of the Yeditepe Poetry Award), Kayayi Delen Incir (The Fig That Split the Rock/1981 - winner of the Necatigil Poetry Award).
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Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil
HASAN HÜSEYİN (Korkmazgil), 1927'de Gürün'de doğdu. Adana Erkek Lisesi'ni, Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü Edebiyat Bölümü'nde bitirdi (1950). Öğretmenliğinin ilk yılında TCK'nın 142. maddesine aykırı eylemlerden dolayı tutuklandı. Bu nedenle mesleğinden ayrılarak arzuhalcilik, tabela ressamlığı, düzelticilik yaptı. Uzun yıllar Akis dergisinde çalıştı. Taş, Karikatür, Yön, Akbaba dergilerinde Hüseyin Korkmazgil adıyla gülmece öyküleri yazdı. Forum dergisini çıkardı (1968-1970). 26 Şubat 1984'te Ankara'da vefat etti.
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Ece Ayhan
Ece Ayhan (Datça/Muğla, 1931-İzmir, 12 Temmuz 2002). Şiirimizin en önemli “modern ustalarından biri” olarak adlandırılır. Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi’ni bitirdi. İlk şiiri 1954’te Türk Dili’nde yayımlandı. Bu dönemde, sonradan ilk kitabı Kınar Hanımın Denizleri’ne (1959) aldığı, kendine özgü çağrışımlar ve göndermelerle örülü şiirleriyle hem Türk şiirinde hem de İkinci Yeni’nin içinde kendine farklı bir kanal açtı.
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1965’te yayımladığı Bakışsız Bir Kedi Kara ve 1968’de yayımlanan Ortodoksluklar’la neredeyse bütünüyle “özel bir dil” halini alan bu şiir, Ayhan’ın, 1973’te yayımladığı ve daha geniş bir okur kitlesince alımlanan Devlet ve Tabiat’ıyla birlikte bu kez de “sokağın diliyle” okurunu (ve izleyicilerini) oluşturdu. 1