Füruzan
Füruzan Yerdelen was an award-winning self-taught Turkish writer, who is highly regarded for her sensitive characterisations of the poor and her depictions of Turkish immigrants abroad.
Füruzan İlk kitabı Parasız Yatılı’yla 1972 Sait Faik Hikâye Armağanı ’nı kazandı. İlk kitaplarında kötü yola düşmüş kadın ve kızların, çöken burjuva ailelerinin, yoksulluk ve yalnızlıkla boğuşan kadın ve çocukların, yeni ortamlarda bunalan ve yurt özlemi çeken göçmenlerin dramlarına sevecenlikle yaklaştı; kişileri derinlemesine inceledi, anlatımını ayrıntılarla besledi. 12 Mart dönemini anlattığı ilk romanı Kırk Yedi’liler ile 1975 TDK Roman Ödülü’nü kazandı. 1975’te bir sanatçılar programıyla (D.A.A.D.) çağrıldığı Batı Berlin ’de bir yıl kalarak işçiler ve s
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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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Melisa Kesmez
MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yaptı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Keriman isimli bir kedisi var.
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Sevgi Soysal
Sevgi Soysal was born in Istanbul in 1936. She grew up in Ankara with her father, an architect-bureaucrat originally from Salonica, and her German mother. She studied archaeology in Ankara, continuing her education in that field as well as theater at Göttingen University.
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Soysal’s first volume of short stories, Tutkulu Perçem (Passionate Bangs), was published in 1962, the same year that Soysal began working for the Turkish national television and radio (TRT). She went on to write Tante Rosa, a novel of interconnected stories based upon the life and personality of her aunt, Rosel. Her novel addressing male-female relationships and the issue of marriage, Yürümek (Walking), was banned upon charges of obscenity. In 1974 Soysal won the prestigiou -
Selçuk Baran
Selçuk Baran (Ankara, 7 Mart 1933 – 4 Kasım 1999) Ankara Kız Lisesi’ni ve Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’ni üstün derecelerle bitirdi. Aynı fakültenin Banka ve Ticaret Hukuku Enstitüsü’nde kurs müdürlüğü yaptı (1958-68). 1995’ten sonra bu enstitünün yayın müdürüydü. 1987-93 yıllarında TRT İstanbul Radyosu’nda radyo oyunları yazdı. “Türkân Hanım” adlı oyunu Devlet Tiyatrosu’nda sahnelendi. İlk öyküsü (Çocuğun Biri) 1968’de Yeditepe dergisinde çıktı. Yalnızlık ve umutsuzlukla örülü öykülerinde düşsel, şiirli bir hava yarattı. Behçet Necatigil “Keskin, belirgin çizgilerden kaçınarak, dikkat isteyen, belirsiz yaşantı parçalarını birleştiriyor; çağrışım ve yorumlara açılma gücü için okuyucudan katkılar bekleyen bir ‘iç hayat’ görünümleri çi
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Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
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He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
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Mine Söğüt
Mine Söğüt (1968, İstanbul), Türk gazeteci, yazar.
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Babası bir deniz subayı olan Mine Söğüt, ortaöğrenimini Kadıköy Kız Lisesi’inde tamamladığı 1985 yılında babasını kaybetti. Aynı yıl İstanbul Üniversitesi Latin Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünde girdi.
Gazeteciliğe 1990 yılında Güneş Gazetesi’nde başladı, İnsan Hakları Servisi’nde muhabirlik yaptı. Güneş Gazetesi’nin kapanmasından sonra Tempo Dergisi ve Yeni Yüzyıl gazetesinde çalıştı.
1993 yılında Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti’nin düzenlediği yarışmada, Haber dalında mansiyon aldı. 1996-2000 yılları arasında Haberci adlı televizyon belgeselinin metin yazarlığını yaptı. 1999-2001 yıllarında Öküz dergisinde yazdığı yazılarla tanındı. Profesyonel gazeteciliği bırakan Söğüt, 2001-2005 yılları arasında C -
Barış Bıçakçı
Barış Bıçakçı 1966'da Adana'da doğdu. Hüseyin Kıyar ve Yavuz Sarıalioğlu ile birlikte, Ocak 1994 ve Ekim 1997 tarihlerinde iki şiir kitabı yayımladı. İlk romanı Herkes Herkesle Dostmuş Gibi (2000) yılında İletişim Yayınları tarafından yayımlandı. İletişim Yayınları'nca yayımlanan diğer kitapları: Herkes Herkesle Dostmuş Gibi (2000), Veciz Sözler (2002), Aramızdaki En Kısa Mesafe (2003), Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (2004), Baharda Yine Geliriz (2006), Bir Süre Yere Paralel Gittikten Sonra (2008), Sinek Isırıklarının Müellifi (2011), Seyrek Yağmur (2016).
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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 - 24 January 1962) was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. He was also a member of the Turkish parliament (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey) between 1942 and 1946.
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Tanpınar was born in Istanbul on 23 June 1901. His father was a judge, Hüseyin Fikri Efendi. Hüseyin Fikri Efendi was Georgian from Maçahel. Tanpınar's mother died at Mosul, when Tanpınar was thirteen. Because his father's vocation required frequent relocation, Tanpınar continued his education in several different cities, including Istanbul, Sinop, Siirt, Kirkuk, and Antalya. After quitting veterinary college, he resumed his educational career at the Faculty of Literature at Istanbul University, wh -
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.
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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 -
Pınar Kür
Yazar. Bursa'da doğdu. Tam adı Havva Pınar Kür. Yazar İsmet Kür'ün kızıdır. İlk ve orta okulu Ankara'da , liseyi New York'ta okudu. Üniversiteye New York'ta başladı ve İstanbul'da Robert Kolej'in yüksek kısmında tamamladı. Fransa'da Sorbonne Üniversitesinde 'Yirminci Yüzyıl Tiyatrosunda Gerçekçilik ve Yanılsama: Pirandello, O'neill ve Etkileri' teziyle doktorasını verdi. Ankara'da Devlet Tiyatrolarında dramaturg olarak çalıştı (1971-1973). Bilgi Üniversitesinde ders verdi. Gazeteci Can Kolukısa ile bir süre evli kaldı.
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Adalet Ağaoğlu
Adalet Ağaoğlu, a writer born in Nallıhan in 1929, graduated from Ankara University's Faculty of Language and History-Geography, Department of French Language and Literature in 1950. Subsequently, she joined Ankara Radio in 1951, where she worked as a dramaturg, radio theater director, and program specialist following the establishment of TRT. He departed from his post in 1970, having served as the head of the Radio Department. Ağaoğlu's foray into poetry commenced with the publication of her work in the 1948 and 1949 issues of Kaynak magazine. She subsequently made her theatrical debut with the play "Bir Piyes Yazalım" (Let's Write a Play), which was staged in Ankara in 1953 and co-authored with a colleague. The initial work of fiction by
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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.
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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 -
Sevgi Soysal
Sevgi Soysal was born in Istanbul in 1936. She grew up in Ankara with her father, an architect-bureaucrat originally from Salonica, and her German mother. She studied archaeology in Ankara, continuing her education in that field as well as theater at Göttingen University.
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Soysal’s first volume of short stories, Tutkulu Perçem (Passionate Bangs), was published in 1962, the same year that Soysal began working for the Turkish national television and radio (TRT). She went on to write Tante Rosa, a novel of interconnected stories based upon the life and personality of her aunt, Rosel. Her novel addressing male-female relationships and the issue of marriage, Yürümek (Walking), was banned upon charges of obscenity. In 1974 Soysal won the prestigiou -
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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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.
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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 -
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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Nikiforos Vrettakos
Nikiforos Vrettakos was a Greek writer and poet. Nikephoros Vrettakos was born in the village of Kokees, near Sparta, and published his first collection of poems, Under Shadows and Lights, in 1929, at the age of seventeen. That same year he moved to Athens to attend university, but left after a year to take a series of jobs as a clerk in various businesses. In 1937 he began a thirty year career in the Greek Civil Service, also seeing combat service in the Greco-Italian War during this period. In 1967 he responded to the takeover of Greece by a military dictatorship by going into self-imposed exile in Switzerland and Italy, where he remained until returning to Greece in 1974. He also wrote a poem about Kostas Georgakis, the student who set h
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Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese was born in a small town in which his father, an official, owned property. He attended school and later, university, in Turin. Denied an outlet for his creative powers by Fascist control of literature, Pavese translated many 20th-century American writers in the 1930s and '40s: Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner; a 19th-century writer who influenced him profoundly, Herman Melville (one of his first translations was of Moby Dick); and the Irish novelist James Joyce. He also published criticism, posthumously collected in La letteratura americana e altri saggi (1951; American Literature, Essays and Opinions, 1970).
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Aziz Nesin
Aziz Nesin was a Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books.
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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 -
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of post-partum depression.
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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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Zola began his literary career working as a clerk for a publishing house, where he developed his skills and cultivated a passion for literature. His early novels, such as Thérèse -
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.
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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.
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Leylâ Erbil
Leylâ Erbil is one of the leading female contemporary writers of Turkey, author of four novels and three collections of short stories, a book of essays and a biographical text about one of the best woman writers in the Turkish language, Tezel Özlü, who died in her early forties. Educated in Istanbul, she has also worked as a translator. In the 1960s she was involved in the activities of the Turkish Labor Party, which was the most influential socialist party at the time. Her stories are usually based on emotional and sociological conflicts of individuals and the society. Whether it is a love story or the story of a family or about the political and social developments of society, she usually presents contradictory states and situations and m
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Richard Yates
Richard Yates shone bright upon the publication of his first novel, Revolutionary Road, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. It drew unbridled praise and branded Yates an important, new writer. Kurt Vonnegut claimed that Revolutionary Road was The Great Gatsby of his time. William Styron described it as "A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." Tennessee Williams went one further and said, "Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don't know what it is."
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Sevim Burak
Sevim Burak (İstanbul, 29 Haziran 1931-İstanbul, 30 Aralık 1983) Alman Lisesi’nin orta bölümünden sonra çalışmaya başladı. Mankenlik yaptı, kendi açtığı modaevini yönetti. İki kez evlenip ayrıldı; ilk evliliğini yaptığı viyolonist Orhan Borar’dan oğlu A. Karaca, ikinci eşi ressam Ömer Uluç’tan kızı Elfe oldu. Ömer Uluç’la birlikte bir süre Nijerya’da yaşadı. İleri derecede seyreden kalp rahatsızlığı nedeniyle yattığı Haseki Hastanesi’nde öldü. Yeni İstanbul gazetesinde ilk kez hikâyesi yayımlandı. Daha sonra bazı hikâyeleri Yenilik, Türk Dili dergilerinde, Ulus ve Milliyet gazetelerinde yayımlandı. Palyaço Ruşen YKY’den yayına hazırlanmaktadır.
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Ahmet Hâşim
Ahmet Haşim was an influential Turkish poet of the early 20th century. He was born in Baghdad, probably in the year 1887. In 1906, having graduated from the Mekteb-i Sultanî (now Galatasaray High School), he began to work as a public servant in different state offices. After the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, Hâşim worked as a teacher of aesthetics in the Academy of Fine Arts and as a French language teacher at Istanbul University. For many years, he also wrote essays for the newspapers.
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Hâşim's early poetry was very much in the Parnassian and Decadent vein of the poets Tevfik Fikret and Cenab Şahâbeddin. Hâşim's later poetry, however -collected in Göl Saatleri and Piyâle- evidences more of a French Symbolist influence, particularly -
Mahmut Makal
Mahmut Makal (d. 1930, Gülağaç, Aksaray - ), 1950'de "Köy Edebiyatı" akımını başlatan Türk yazar, şair ve öğretmen.
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Makal, 1930 yılında Aksaray ilinin Gülağaç ilçesi Demirci Kasabası'nde doğdu. 1943 yılında İvriz Köy Enstitüsü'ne başladı. Edebiyata şiirle başladı. İlk olarak 1945'te "Türk'e Doğru" ve 1946'da "Köy Enstitüsü" dergilerinde şiirler yazdı. Varlık Dergisi'ndeki Köy Notları ile dikkat çekti. 1947'de İvriz Köy Enstitüsünü bitirdekten sonra 6 yıl köy öğretmenliği yaptı. 1950 yılında öğretmenlik yıllarındaki gözlemlerini Bizim Köy adlı bir kitapta yayınlayarak büyük yankı uyandırdı. Köy Edebiyatı akımının başlangıcı olarak anılan bu kitap nedeni ile tutuklanıp bir süre cezaevinde kaldı. Öğrenmenlikten sonra 1953 yılında Ankara Gazi En -
Selim İleri
Ali Selim İleri was a Turkish writer, screenwriter, and film critic.
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Herkül Millas
1940’ta Ankara’da doğdu. Yüksek öğrenimini 1965’te Robert Kolej’de tamamladı. 1960’larda öğrenci hareketinde yer aldı. TİP üyesiydi. 1971’de Atina’ya yerleşti. Yunanca’dan Türkçe’ye Ritsos, Seferis, Elitis vd. şairlerin yapıtlarını çevirdi. Halen A.Ü. D.T.C.F. Çağdaş Yunan Edebiyatı Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesiydi. Bu yıllarda Siyaset Bilimi bölümünde doktora öğrenimini tamamladı. Türk-Yunan ilişkileri ve karşılıklı algılamalar konusunda kitap ve makaleleri Türkçe, Yunanca ve İngilizce olarak çeşitli ülkelerde yayımlandı.
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