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  Melih Cevdet Anday

  Melih Cevdet Anday was born in Istanbul in 1915. In 1936, he started attending the Faculty of Letters and History-Geography. In 1938, he went to Belgium to study sociology, however, upon breakout of World War II in 1940, he had to return to his homeland. Between 1942 and 1951, he worked as a publication consultant for the Department of Publications of the Turkish Ministry of National Education, and subsequently he was employed as librarian for the Ankara Library. In 1951, he returned to Istanbul and did reporting for the Aksam newspaper. During this period, he wrote short features and essays for Tercüman, Büyük Gazete, Tanin and Cumhuriyet newspapers. He was also in charge of the art and literature sections of the same papers. From 1954 onw

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  Nazlı Eray

  Nazlı Eray, Ankara'da doğdu. İngiliz Kız Ortaokulu, Arnavutköy Amerikan Kız Koleji ve İstanbul Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'nde okuduktan sonra Turizm ve Tanıtma Bakanlığı'nda tercüman olarak çalıştı. Edebiyatçılar Derneği'nin kurucuları arasında yer alan Eray, Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası'nın kurucusu, Uluslararasi Yazarlar Birligi (PEN) üyesi, 1977 ve 1978 yıllarında Yaratıcı Yazım dersleri verdigi ABD Iowa Üniversitesi'nin onursal üyesidir.
  Yazmaya 1959'da henüz ortaokuldayken kaleme aldığı öyküsü "Mösyö Hristo" ile başlayan Eray'ın ilk öykü kitabı Ah Bayım Ah 1975'te çıktı. "Laz Bakkal" başta olmak üzere pek çok öyküsü kültleşti. "Karanfil Gece Kursu" öyküsüyle 1988 Haldun Taner Öykü Ödülü'nü, kazandı. Aşkı Giyinen Adam romanıyla 2002 Yunu

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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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  Zadie Smith

  Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.

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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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  Philip K. Dick

  Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific American science fiction author whose work has had a lasting impact on literature, cinema, and popular culture. Known for his imaginative narratives and profound philosophical themes, Dick explored the nature of reality, the boundaries of human identity, and the impact of technology and authoritarianism on society. His stories often blurred the line between the real and the artificial, challenging readers to question their perceptions and beliefs.
  Raised in California, Dick began writing professionally in the early 1950s, publishing short stories in various science fiction magazines. He quickly developed a distinctive voice within the genre, marked by a fusion of science fiction concepts with deep existenti

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  Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

  Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.
  
  Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society.
  
  Frequently his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of "the West" and "Japanese tradition" are juxtaposed. The results are complex, ironic, demure, and provocative.

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  Fernando Pessoa

  Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.
  
  It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h

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  H.P. Lovecraft

  Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
  
  Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mir

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
  
  Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
  
  In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from

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  Bertolt Brecht

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. A seminal theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel—with its internationally acclaimed productions.
  
  From his late twenties Brecht remained a life-long committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his 'epic theatre', synthesized and extended the experiments of Piscator and Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political

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  Federico García Lorca

  Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.
  

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  Nazlı Eray

  Nazlı Eray, Ankara'da doğdu. İngiliz Kız Ortaokulu, Arnavutköy Amerikan Kız Koleji ve İstanbul Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'nde okuduktan sonra Turizm ve Tanıtma Bakanlığı'nda tercüman olarak çalıştı. Edebiyatçılar Derneği'nin kurucuları arasında yer alan Eray, Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası'nın kurucusu, Uluslararasi Yazarlar Birligi (PEN) üyesi, 1977 ve 1978 yıllarında Yaratıcı Yazım dersleri verdigi ABD Iowa Üniversitesi'nin onursal üyesidir.
  Yazmaya 1959'da henüz ortaokuldayken kaleme aldığı öyküsü "Mösyö Hristo" ile başlayan Eray'ın ilk öykü kitabı Ah Bayım Ah 1975'te çıktı. "Laz Bakkal" başta olmak üzere pek çok öyküsü kültleşti. "Karanfil Gece Kursu" öyküsüyle 1988 Haldun Taner Öykü Ödülü'nü, kazandı. Aşkı Giyinen Adam romanıyla 2002 Yunu

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  Damon Galgut

  Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award. The Imposter was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He lives in Cape Town.

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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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  Marcel Proust

  Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style.
  
  Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out,

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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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  Zaven Biberyan

  1921'de İstanbul Kadıköy'de doğdu. Kadıköy Aramyan-Uncuyan ve Dibar Gırtaran (Sultanyan) Ermeni ilkokulları, Saint Joseph Lisesi ve İstanbul Ticari İlimler Akademisi'nde öğrenim gördü.
  
  1941'de Yirmi Sınıf (Kura) asker toplanırken, o da askere alındı ve Nafıa hizmetine verildi. Akhisar'da kendisi gibi Nafıa askeri olan Jamanak [Zaman] gazetesi yöneticilerinden Ara Koçunyan'la tanıştı. Üç buçuk yıl süren askerlik dönüşü Jamanak gazetesinde yayınlanan "Krisdoneutyan Vağhcanı" [Hıristiyanlığın Sonu] adlı yazı dizisi büyük gürültü kopardı, dizinin yayını durduruldu. Nor Lur [Yeni Haber] ve Nor Or [Yeni Gün] gazetelerinde, daha sonra da Jamanak gazetesi yayın kurulunda görev aldı. Sosyalist düşüncelerinden dolayı gelen baskılar sonucu gazeteden ay

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  Vigdis Hjorth

  Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.
  
  In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.
  
  Hjorth has three children and lives in Asker.

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  Orhan Kemal

  Orhan Kemal, (Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü) writer of short stories and novels was born in Adana in 1914 and died in Sofia in 1970. His father, Abdülkadir Kemali, was an MP from Kastamonu during the first term parliament of the Turkish Republic. Abdülkadir Kemali, a lawyer by profession, established The Ahali Party which was dissolved causing its founder to have to flee to Syria. In order to accompany his father, Orhan Kemal had to miss his final year of secondary school. Orhan Kemal stayed in Syria for a year, returning to Adana in 1932. He worked as a laborer, weaver and clerk in cotton gin mills. During his military service he was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for his political opinions. Bursa prison became a turning point in his life and art

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  Melih Cevdet Anday

  Melih Cevdet Anday was born in Istanbul in 1915. In 1936, he started attending the Faculty of Letters and History-Geography. In 1938, he went to Belgium to study sociology, however, upon breakout of World War II in 1940, he had to return to his homeland. Between 1942 and 1951, he worked as a publication consultant for the Department of Publications of the Turkish Ministry of National Education, and subsequently he was employed as librarian for the Ankara Library. In 1951, he returned to Istanbul and did reporting for the Aksam newspaper. During this period, he wrote short features and essays for Tercüman, Büyük Gazete, Tanin and Cumhuriyet newspapers. He was also in charge of the art and literature sections of the same papers. From 1954 onw

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  Evrim Alataş

  1976’da Malatya’nın Akçadağ ilçesine bağlı Gölpınar köyünde doğdu. İlkokulu kendi köyünde, ortaokulu başka bir köyde, liseyi ise İstanbul’da okudu. 1995’te Yeni Politika’da, o kapatıldıktan sonra yerine kurulan gazetede, o da kapatılınca onun yerine kurulan gazetede çalıştı. Böylece yedi gazete etti – Özgür Gündem’e kadar... Başka yayın organlarının yanı sıra Radikal İki’de, Birgün’de, Birikim’de yazdı. 2003’te Aram Yayıncılık’tan Mayoz Bölünme Hikayeleri yayımlanmıştı. 12 Nisan 2010'da aramızdan ayrıldı.

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  Raphaël Jerusalmy

  Raphaël Jerusalmy, né en 1954 à Paris, au pied de la Butte Montmartre, de mère russe et de père turc immigrés en France et brocanteurs de profession, la famille turque de son père fut déportée et exterminée à Auschwitz.
  
  Diplômé de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure et de la Sorbonne, a fait carrière au sein des services de renseignements militaires israéliens avant de mener des actions de caractère humanitaire et éducatif. Il est aujourd'hui marchand de livres anciens à Tel-Aviv.

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  Aylin Balboa

  1980 yılında İzmit’te doğdu. Öğrencilik yıllarını Ankara’da geçirdi. Çeşitli dergilerde yazıları yayımlandı. Halen İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Balık adında bir köpeği var.

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  Evrim Alataş

  1976’da Malatya’nın Akçadağ ilçesine bağlı Gölpınar köyünde doğdu. İlkokulu kendi köyünde, ortaokulu başka bir köyde, liseyi ise İstanbul’da okudu. 1995’te Yeni Politika’da, o kapatıldıktan sonra yerine kurulan gazetede, o da kapatılınca onun yerine kurulan gazetede çalıştı. Böylece yedi gazete etti – Özgür Gündem’e kadar... Başka yayın organlarının yanı sıra Radikal İki’de, Birgün’de, Birikim’de yazdı. 2003’te Aram Yayıncılık’tan Mayoz Bölünme Hikayeleri yayımlanmıştı. 12 Nisan 2010'da aramızdan ayrıldı.

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  Raphaël Jerusalmy

  Raphaël Jerusalmy, né en 1954 à Paris, au pied de la Butte Montmartre, de mère russe et de père turc immigrés en France et brocanteurs de profession, la famille turque de son père fut déportée et exterminée à Auschwitz.
  
  Diplômé de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure et de la Sorbonne, a fait carrière au sein des services de renseignements militaires israéliens avant de mener des actions de caractère humanitaire et éducatif. Il est aujourd'hui marchand de livres anciens à Tel-Aviv.

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  Samet Ağaoğlu

  Samet Ağaoğlu 1909’da Bakü’de doğdu 6 Ağustos 1982’de İstanbul’da öldü. İlk ve orta öğrenimini Beyazıt Feyziye Mektebi’nde tamamladı. 1926 yılında Ankara Lisesi’ni, 1931 yılında ise Ankara Hukuk Fakültesi’ni bitirdi. Üniversite eğitiminden sonra doktora çalışması amacıyla gittiği Strasbourg’da on altı ay kaldı. Ancak, doktorasını tamamlamadan Türkiye’ye döndü. İktisat ve ticaret bakanlıklarında çalıştı.
  
  Fikir ve siyaset adamı Ahmet Ağaoğlu’nun oğlu olan Samet Ağaoğlu, avukatlığa başladığı 1946 yılında Demokrat Parti ’ye katılarak siyasete atıldı. 1950 ile 1960 arasında Manisa Milletvekili olarak Meclis’te yer aldı. Aynı dönem, Adnan Menderes hükümetlerinde çalışma, sanayi ve devlet bakanlığı görevlerinde bulundu. 27 Mayıs 1960 ihtilalinin ar

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