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Murat Bardakçı

Murat Gökhan Bardakçı, a Turkish journalist and columnist in Gazete HaberTürk, has two TV shows on HaberTürk TV called Tarihin Arka Odası (Presenting with Pelin Batu and Erhan Afyoncu and special guests on the topic of the day) and Teke Teke Özel (with Fatih Altaylı). His books primarily consist on the history of Ottoman Empire and Turkish music. His bachelor graduate degree is on economics in Istanbul University.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American

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Robert Greene

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Best-selling author and public speaker, Robert Greene was born in Los Angeles. He attended U.C. California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received a degree in classical studies. He has worked in New York as an editor and writer at several magazines, including Esquire; and in Hollywood as a story developer and writer.

Robert has lived in London, Paris, and Barcelona; he speaks several languages and has worked as a translator. In 1995 he was involved in the planning and creation of the art school Fabrica, outside Venice, Italy. There he met Joost Elffers, the New York book packager and discussed with him his idea for a book on power and manipulation, th

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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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Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, former Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and current senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and founder and managing director of advisory firm Greenmantle LLC.

The author of 15 books, Ferguson is writing a life of Henry Kissinger, the first volume of which--Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist--was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History. Other titles include Civilization: The West and the Rest, The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and E

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by correcting and expanding Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world.

He was the son of author Johanna Schopenhauer and the older brother of Adele Schopenhauer.

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Georges Perec

Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists, and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy.

Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz.

Perec's first novel, Les Choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties) was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1965.

In 1978, Perec won the prix Médicis for Life: A User's Manual (French title, La Vie mode d'emploi), possibly his best-known work. The 99 chapters of thi

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1532-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers the world over, from William Shakespeare to René Descartes, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Stephan Zweig, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was a conservative and earnest Catholic but, as a result of his anti-dogmatic cast of mind, he is consi

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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.
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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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Matt Haig

Matt Haig is the author of novels such as The Midnight Library, How to Stop Time, The Humans, The Radleys, and the forthcoming The Life Impossible. He has also written books for children, such as A Boy Called Christmas, and the memoir Reasons to Stay Alive.

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Mary Beard

Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Newnham College. She is the Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and author of the blog "A Don's Life", which appears on The Times as a regular column. Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist".

Mary Beard, an only child, was born on 1 January 1955 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her father, Roy Whitbread Beard, worked as an architect in Shrewsbury. She recalled him as "a raffish public-schoolboy type and a complete wastrel, but very engaging". Her mother Joyce Emily Beard was a headmistress and an enthusiastic rea

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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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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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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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Wilhelm Schmid

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Wilhelm Schmid ist ein deutscher Philosoph mit dem Schwerpunkt auf dem Gebiet der Lebenskunstphilosophie.

Nach einer Kindheit und Jugend in bäuerlicher Umgebung (seine Eltern waren Landwirte und hatten sechs Kinder), einer Lehre als Schriftsetzer und vier Jahren bei der Bundeswehr holte Wilhelm Schmid am Augsburger Bayernkolleg 1980 das Abitur nach. Von 1977 bis 1980 war er in Augsburg Vorsitzender der dortigen Jungdemokraten, der damaligen Jugendorganisation der FDP. 1980 begann er ein Studium von Philosophie und Geschichte an der Freien Universität Berlin, der Pariser Sorbonne und der Universität Tübingen, das er 1991 mit einer Doktorarbeit über Michel Foucault abschloss.

Er übernahm Lehraufträge an der

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Şevket Süreyya Aydemir

Şevket Süreyya Aydemir was a Turkish writer, intellectual, economist, historian, and one of the founders, publisher and a key theorist of Kadro ("Cadre"), an influential left-wing political journal published in Turkey from 1932 to 1934.

Aydemir was a prolific writer. His most famous work was İnkılap ve Kadro ("Revolution and the Cadre"), published in 1932, where he outlined his theory of political economy presented in the Kadro journal. He published his memoirs, Suyu Arayan Adam ("The Man Searching for Water") in 1959. Between 1963 and 1965, he published Tek Adam ("The Single Man"), a three volume tome on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He also published a biography of İsmet İnönü titled Ikinci Adam ("The Second Man").

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Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ; Wade-Giles: Laosi; also Laozi, Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Laosi, Lao Zi, Laocius, Lao Ce, and other variations) was a mystic philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching (often simply referred to as Laozi). His association with the Tao Te Ching has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of Taoism (pronounced as "Daoism"). He is also revered as a deity in most religious forms of the Taoist religion, which often refers to Laozi as Taishang Laojun, or "One of the Three Pure Ones". Laozi translated literally from Chinese means "old master" or "old one", and is generally considered honorific.

According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BCE. Hi

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Jules Payot

Jules Payot (1859-1940) was a French educationist.

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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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Falih Rıfkı Atay

Atatürk üzerine çalışmalarıyla tanınmış gazeteci, yazar Falih Rıfkı Atay 1894'te İstanbul'da doğmuştur. Öğrenimini İstanbul Edebiyat Fakültesi'nde yaptı. 1908 devriminden sonra "Tanin" gazetesinde gazeteciliğe başladı. Bir yandan gazetelere, dergilere yazılar yazıyor, bir yandan da Babiâli Mektubi Kalemi'ne devam ediyordu (1913). Bir süre sonra, oradan Dahiliye Hususi Kalemi'ne kâtip olarak geçti. Falih Rıfkı Atay Birinci Dünya Savaşı'na yedek subay olarak katıldı. Bir süre sonra 4. Ordu Komutanı Cemal Paşa'nın emir subayı olarak, Kudüs'te ve Suriye'de bulundu. Bu arada, resmi görevle birtakım Avrupa yolculuklarına da katıldı. Savaş sona erince, Bahriye Hususi Kalem Müdür muavinliğine atandı. O sıralarda iki arkadaşıyla birlikte "Akşam" gaz

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Pierre Boulle

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Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963) that were both made into award-winning films.

Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour. He used these experiences in The Bridge over the River Kwai, about the notorious Death Railway, which became an international bestseller. The film by David Lean won many Oscars, and Boulle was credited with writing the screenplay, because its two genuine authors had been blacklisted.

His science-fiction

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Vahdettin Engin

Yakınçağ Osmanlı tarihi uzmanı olan ve özellikle Sultan Abdülhamit dönemine ve Türkiye'de ulaşım tarihine ilişkin araştırmalarıyla tanınan Prof. Dr. Vahdettin Engin, 1956 yılında Kocaeli’nin Yarımca ilçesinde doğdu.İlköğrenimini Yarımca’da tamamladı. 1977 yılında Galatasaray Lisesi'ni bitirdi ve 1982 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Yakınçağ Tarihi Kürsüsü’nden mezun oldu. 1983 yılında Marmara Üniversitesi Atatürk Eğitim Fakültesi’nde araştırma görevlisi olarak akademik hayatına başladı. 1986 yılında "Ahmet Rıza Bey ve Siyasi Faaliyetleri" konulu yüksek lisans tezini, 1992 yılında "Rumeli Demiryolları" konulu araştırması ile doktora çalışmasını tamamladı. 1995 yılında doçent, 2002’de profesör unvanını aldı. Halen aynı üniver

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Mehmed Efendi

Mehemet Effendi, was a Georgian Ottoman statesman who was delegated as ambassador by the Sultan Ahmed III to Louis XV's France in 1720. He is remembered for his account of his embassy mission ("Sefaretname").

Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi was born in Edirne. His date of birth is unknown. He is the son of an officer in the Janissary corps, Süleyman Ağa, who died during a campaign to Pécs. Mehmed Çelebi himself was enrolled in the Janissary corps, and since he had served in the 28th battalion ("orta" in Janissary terminology) of the corps, he came to be known with the nickname "Yirmisekiz" (twenty-eight in Turkish) for his entire life. His descendants, including a son who became a grand vizier, also carried the name in the form of "Yirmisekizzade"

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Erik-Jan Zürcher

Erik-Jan Zürcher
A Turkologist and professor at Leiden University with expertise in Turkish languages and cultures, and focused on "the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey."

His father, Erik Zurcher, was a sinologist specializing in the religions of China.

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Vahdettin Engin

Yakınçağ Osmanlı tarihi uzmanı olan ve özellikle Sultan Abdülhamit dönemine ve Türkiye'de ulaşım tarihine ilişkin araştırmalarıyla tanınan Prof. Dr. Vahdettin Engin, 1956 yılında Kocaeli’nin Yarımca ilçesinde doğdu.İlköğrenimini Yarımca’da tamamladı. 1977 yılında Galatasaray Lisesi'ni bitirdi ve 1982 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Yakınçağ Tarihi Kürsüsü’nden mezun oldu. 1983 yılında Marmara Üniversitesi Atatürk Eğitim Fakültesi’nde araştırma görevlisi olarak akademik hayatına başladı. 1986 yılında "Ahmet Rıza Bey ve Siyasi Faaliyetleri" konulu yüksek lisans tezini, 1992 yılında "Rumeli Demiryolları" konulu araştırması ile doktora çalışmasını tamamladı. 1995 yılında doçent, 2002’de profesör unvanını aldı. Halen aynı üniver

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