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Ahmed Midhat Efendi

Ahmet Mithat was an Ottoman journalist, author, translator, and publisher during the Tanzimat period. In his works, he was known as Ahmet Mithat Efendi, in order to distinguish him from the contemporary politician Midhat Pasha. Ahmet Mithat Efendi adopted his name in homage to Ahmed Şefik Midhat Pasha, with whom he had been associated professionally, serving as an official and newspaper editor in Midhat Pasha's Vilayet of the Danube.

He was a prolific writer, with more than 250 of his works having survived to the present day. In 1878, he began publishing a newspaper entitled Tercüman-ı Hakikat (Interpreter of Truth). Prior to this, he was a contributor to Basiret, a newspaper published between 1870 and 1879. His editorship and publication of

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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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Samipaşazade Sezai

Sami Paşazade Sezai (Osmanlıca: سامى باشا زاده سزائى), (d. 1859 İstanbul - ö. 26 Nisan 1936 İstanbul) Türk realist öykücü, romancı.
Türk Edebiyatının ilk gerçekçi romanlarından birisi olma özelliğiyle edebiyat tarihinde büyük önem taşıyan “Sergüzeşt” adlı romanın yazarıdır. Türk edebiyatında modern kısa hikâyenin kurucularındandır.

1859 yılında İstanbul’da dünyaya geldi. Tanzimat devrinin ileri gelen isimlerinden, Osmanlı Devleti’nin ilk Maarif Nazırı (Eğitim bakanı) Abdurrahman Sami Paşa ile Paşa’nın ikinci eşi olan Dilarayiş Hanım’ın[1] oğludur.
Babasının Taşkasap, Taşkasap’taki konağında özel öğrenim gördü. Konaktaki eğitim yıllarında Farsça, Arapça, Fransızca, Almanca; daha sonra Londra’da görev yaptığı yıllarda İngilizce öğrendi. Yirmi ya

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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, (d. 27 Mart 1889, Kahire, Mısır – ö. 3 Aralık 1974, Ankara). Türk romancı, gazeteci, şair, diplomat.

Roman, öykü ve makaleleri ile Türk toplumunun Tanzimat’tan bu yana geçirdiği değişiklikleri anlatmış bir yazardır. Asıl ününü romanları ile sağlayan yazarın en ünlü romanları Nur Baba, Kiralık Konak ve Yaban'dır. Edebiyat yaşamının başında Fecr-i Ati edebiyat topluluğunun kurucu üyeleri arasında yer almış; daha sonra ferdiyetçi düşüncelerden uzaklaşarak toplumcu edebiyatı kabul etmiş bir yazar olarak değerlendirilir.

Milli Mücadele yıllarında ve sonrasında etkin bir siyasal yaşam sürmüştür. Milli Mücadeleden itibaren Atatürk’ün yakın arkadaşları arasında yer almış; TBMM II., IV., XII. dönemlerde milletvekiliği yapmış

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Grigory Petrov

(1868 - 1925), Orthodox priest and a leading proponent of Christian social activism.

Grigory Petrov was born in Iamburg, St. Petersburg province. He was educated at the diocesan seminary and the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy (1887 - 1891), and on graduating became a priest in a St. Petersburg church.

Petrov was also active as a writer. In his most successful work, The Gospel as the Foundation of Life (1898), he argued that Christian believers were required to apply the literal teachings of Jesus to every aspect of their lives in order to begin building the Kingdom of God here on earth. Petrov knew of the American Social Gospel movement, but his ideas were shaped by his encounters with new conceptions of pastorship and Christian activi

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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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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Kemal Atatürk, originally Mustafa Kemal led and founded modern Turkey, in 1919 organized the nationalist party, established a rival government to the Ottoman sultan, and after a civil war served from 1923 as president of the republic.

Ali Riza, a customs official, turned lumber merchant, fathered Mustafa, and died during his boyhood. Zubeyde, his mother, a devout and strong-willed woman, reared him and his sister. People first enrolled him in a traditional religious school, but he quickly switched. In 1893, he entered a military high school, where his mathematics teacher gave the second name Kemal, meaning perfection, to young Mustafa in recognition of superior achievement. People thereafter knew him as Mustafa Kemal.

From the academy in Ist

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Mehmet Rauf

Mehmet Rauf, Türk edebiyatçı. İstanbul'da doğmuş ve küçük yaşta edebiyat ile ilgilenmeye başlamıştır. Bahriye Okulu'na gitmiş, İngilizce ve Fransızca öğrenmiştir. Yakından takip ettiği Halit Ziya'nın eserlerine ve realizm akımına ilgi duymuştur. Fransız yazar Paul Bourget'yi okudu ve ondan etkilendi. 1896 yılından itibaren Servet-i Fünûn'da yazmaya başladı. Roman,hikaye ve tiyatro türünde eserler vermiştir.Psikolojik tahlillere büyük önem verir.Bu yüzden eserlerinde kahraman sayısı azdır.

Romanlarında genelde İstanbul ve çevresinde yaşayan seçkin ailelerin arasında geçen aşk ilişkilerini konu almıştır. Zaman zaman şiirler de yazmıştır

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Mustafa Kutlu

1947'de Erzincan'da doğdu. Erzincan Lisesi'ni (1963), Erzurum Atatürk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünü bitirdi (1968).
Tunceli ve İstanbul'da edebiyat öğretmenliği yaptı. Öğretmenlikten ayrılarak (1974) Dergâh Yayınları'nda idareci olarak çalışmaya başladı.
Hareket ve Dergâh dergileriyle, Türk Dili Edebiyatı Ansiklopedisi'nin yayın faaliyetlerini yürüttü.
Senaryolar yazdı. Televizyonda sohbet programları yaptı.

Mustafa Kutlu Eserleri
Hikaye
Ortadaki Adam (1970),
Gönül İşi (1974),
Yokuşa Akan Sular (1979),
Yoksulluk İçimizde (1981),
Ya Tahammül Ya Sefer (1983),
Bu Böyledir (1990),
Sır (1990),
Arkakapak Yazıları (1995),
Hüzün ve Tesadüf (1998)
Uzun Hikâye (2000),
Beyhude Ömrüm (2001),
Mavi Kuş (Hikaye 2002).

Deneme:
Akasya

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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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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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Chingiz Aitmatov

Chinghiz Aitmatov (Чингиз Айтматов, Tschingis Aitmatow, Čingiz Ajtmatov, Tšõngõz Ajtmatov, Cengiz Aytmatov, Tsjingiz Ajtmatov, Tchinguiz Aïtmatov, جنكيز ايتماتوف) was an author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan literature.

Aitmatov's parents were civil servants in Sheker. The name Chingiz is the same as the honorary title of Genghis Khan. In early childhood he wandered as a nomad with his family, as the Kyrgyzstan people did at the time. In 1937 his father was charged with "bourgeois nationalism" in Moscow, arrested and executed in 1938.

Aitmatov lived at a time when Kyrgyzstan was being transformed from one of the most remote lands of the Russian Empire to a republic of the USSR. The future aut

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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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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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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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Aziz Nesin

Aziz Nesin was a Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books.
Nesin was born in 1915 on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands of Istanbul, in the days of the Ottoman Empire. After serving as a career officer for several years, he became the editor of a series of satirical periodicals with a socialist slant. He was jailed several times and placed under surveillance by the National Security Service (MAH in Turkish) for his political views. Among the incriminating pieces of evidence they found against him during his military service was his theft and sale for 35 Lira of two goats intended for his company—a violation of clause 131/2 of the Military Penal Code. One 98-year-old former MAH officer named Neşet Güriş alleged that Nesin was i

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José Mauro de Vasconcelos

José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Faculty, José abandoned the course of studies in his second year and returned to Rio de Janeiro.[citation needed] There he worked as a boxing instructor and even as a painter's model.

José iniciated his literature with the novel Banana Brava. His greatest success was his novel Meu Pé de Laranja Lima, that tells about his own personal experiences and the shocks he suffered in his childhood with the abrupt changes of life.

José was part Indian and part Portuguese. He passed his childhood in Natal. When he was 9 years old, he learned to swim, and with

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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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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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Shōhei Ōoka

Shōhei Ōoka (Ōoka Shōhei / 大岡昇平) was a Japanese novelist, literary critic, and translator of French literature active in Shōwa period Japan. He graduated from Kyoto University in 1932 and majored in French literature, publishing a series of essays on Stendhal and translating some of the French writer's novels. Called to arms in 1944 he was sent to the Philippines where he was taken prisoner by the Americans. During that time he set out to write a series of fiction and nonfiction works focusing on the condition of captivity. Indeed, Ōoka belongs to the group of postwar writers whose World War II experiences at home and abroad figure prominently in their works. Over his lifetime, he contributed short stories and critical essays to almost eve

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James Plunkett

James Plunkett Kelly, or James Plunkett (21 May 1920 – 28 May 2003), was an Irish writer. He was educated at Synge Street CBS.

Plunkett grew up among the Dublin working class and they, along with the petty bourgeoisie and lower intelligentsia, make up the bulk of the dramatis personae of his oeuvre. His best-known works are the novel Strumpet City, set in Dublin in the years leading up to the lockout of 1913 and during the course of the strike, and the short stories in the collection The Trusting and the Maimed. His other works include a radio play on James Larkin, who figures prominently in his work.

During the 1960s, Plunkett worked as a producer at Telefís Éireann. He won two Jacob's Awards, in 1965 and 1969, for his TV productions. In 197

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Rosalind Laker

A pseudonym used by Barbara Øvstedal.

Barbara Øvstedal was an author previously writing under the pseudonym Barbara Paul and Barbara Douglas. She wrote a few books under this pseudonym but later changed to Rosalind Laker when Barbara Paul gained recognition. Her many books include The Sugar Pavilion and To Dance with Kings.

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Sinan Yağmur

Sinan yağmur,1965 yılında Kırşehirde doğdu. İlk ve orta öğrenimini Kırşehirde tamamladı, Kırşehir İmam hatip Lisesi'nden 1984'de,Selçuk Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesin'den de 1990 yılında mezun oldu. Aynı yıl kelam ve islam felsefesi ana bilim dalında yüksek lisansa başladı. 1991 yılında Kadınhanı İmam Hatip lisesinde öğretmenliğe başlayan SİNAN YAĞMUR sırasıyla KONYA İHL ve Meram Dr. Ali Rıza Bahadır İHL de idarecilik görevlerinde bulundu, halen Naciye Mumcuoğlu lisesinde din kültürü ve ahlak bilgisi öğretmeni olarak görevini sürdüren Yağmur, evil ve 2 çocuk babasıdır.

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Turgut Özakman

1 Eylül 1930 tarihinde Ankara'da dünyaya geldi. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'ni bitirdi. Bir süre avukatlık yaptı. Köln Üniversitesi Tiyatro Bilimi Enstitüsü'ne devam ettikten sonra Devlet Tiyatrosu'na dramaturg olarak girdi. TRT'de Merkez Program Daire Başkanlığı, Genel Müdür Yardımcılığı, Devlet Tiyatrolarında Genel Müdür Başyardımcılığı ve 1983 - 1987 yılları arasında Genel Müdürlük yaptı. 1988-1994 yılları arasında Radyo-Televizyon Yüksek Kurulu'nda üyelik ve başkan yardımcılığı görevlerinde bulundu. Uzun yıllar Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi Tiyatro Bölümü'nde (DTCF Tiyatro) kadrolu öğretim görevlisi olarak çalıştı ve Dramatik Yazarlık dersleri verdi.

28 Eylül 1998'de, üstün hizmetleri nedeniyle Anadolu Ünive

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İpek Ongun

1961 yılında Amerikan Kız Koleji Edebiyat Bölümü'nden mezun olan İpek Ongun, yazı yaşamına 1980'de yayımlanan Mektup Arkadaşları'yla başladı. Onu Kamp Arkadaşları ve Afacanlar Çetesi adlı çocuk kitapları izledi. Bunları izleyen Yaş On Yedi ve Bir Genç Kızın Gizli Defteri başlıklı yapıtlarıysa gençlik için yazılmış romanlardır. Gençlik romanlarından sonra, gençlere yaşama kültürü ve kişisel gelişim gibi konularda yardımcı olmasını amaçladığı bir üçlü yazdı. Adları Bir Pırıltıdır Yaşamak , Bu Hayat Sizin ve Lütfen Beni Anla olan bu kitapların ilki 1911 yılında TÜYAP'ta " Altın Kitap Ödülü " 'nü aldı. Ayrıca gençller için yaptığı bu çalışmalar nedeniyle kendisine Rotary Kulübü tarafından "* 1995-1996 Meslek Hizmetleri Ödülü" verildi. 1998 yılı

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Mustafa Kutlu

1947'de Erzincan'da doğdu. Erzincan Lisesi'ni (1963), Erzurum Atatürk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünü bitirdi (1968).
Tunceli ve İstanbul'da edebiyat öğretmenliği yaptı. Öğretmenlikten ayrılarak (1974) Dergâh Yayınları'nda idareci olarak çalışmaya başladı.
Hareket ve Dergâh dergileriyle, Türk Dili Edebiyatı Ansiklopedisi'nin yayın faaliyetlerini yürüttü.
Senaryolar yazdı. Televizyonda sohbet programları yaptı.

Mustafa Kutlu Eserleri
Hikaye
Ortadaki Adam (1970),
Gönül İşi (1974),
Yokuşa Akan Sular (1979),
Yoksulluk İçimizde (1981),
Ya Tahammül Ya Sefer (1983),
Bu Böyledir (1990),
Sır (1990),
Arkakapak Yazıları (1995),
Hüzün ve Tesadüf (1998)
Uzun Hikâye (2000),
Beyhude Ömrüm (2001),
Mavi Kuş (Hikaye 2002).

Deneme:
Akasya

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Necip Fazıl Kısakürek

In his own words, he was born in "a huge mansion in Çemberlitaş, on one of the streets descending towards Sultanahmet" in 1904. His father was Abdülbaki Fazıl Bey who held several posts including deputy judge in Bursa, public prosecuter in Gebze and finally, judge in Kadıköy. His mother was an emigree from Crete. He was raised at the Çemberlitaş mansion of his paternal grandfather Kısakürekzade Mehmet Hilmi Efendi of Maraş who named his grandson after his own father, Ahmet Necib as well as his son, Fazıl.

Necib Fazıl learned to read and write from his grandfather at the age of five. After graduating from the French School in Gedikpaşa, he continued his education in various schools, also including Robert College of Istanbul as well as the Nav

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Burçak Çerezcioğlu

Tiyatrocu Mehmet Çerezcioğlu'nun 16 yaşında kanserden vefat eden kızı, günlüğünden oluşturulmuş Mavi Saçlı Kız adlı kitabın yazarıdır. Kitapta özellikle Mehmet Çerezcioğlu tarafından yazılmış dörtlükler dikkat çeker.

Sabahları
Hasta uyanmanı istiyorum
Hastaysan eğer
Yaşıyorsun demektir.

"ister acıklı, ister mutlu;
ister uzun, ister kısa...
film bitiyor bir gün.
olması gereken, olması gerektiği zamanda oluyor...
o an ışıklar yanıyor... perdedeki görüntüler son'a eriyor.
seyrettikleriniz hayal oluveriyor."
Ailesi

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