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Orhan Türker

1949'da İstanbul'da doğdu. Moda İlkokulu, Kadıköy Ortaokulu ve Marmara Koleji'nden sonra Gazetecilik Yüksek Okulu'nu bitirdi. Özellikle Moda'da geçen çocukluk yıllarında Rumlarla yakın ilişkisi sonucunda küçük yaşta Yunanca öğrendi. Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu'nda çalışmasının yanı sıra ülkesel Yunanca tercüman-rehber lisansına sahip olması sayesinde turizm alanında da faaliyet gösterdi.

Türker'in çalışmaları İstanbul'dan Yunanistan'a göçmüş Rum okurların da ilgisini çekmiştir. Galata'dan Karaköy'e Bir Liman Hikâyesi, 2008'de Yunancaya çevrilmiş, İstanbul Limanı'nın Hikâyesi adıyla basılmıştır. Yazar, İstanbul Rumları üzerine araştırma ve çalışmalarını Eşi Keti Proku Türker'in de desteğiyle Yunanca kaynaklardan sürdürmekted

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Herman Melville

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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a mer

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Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991).

Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves.

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Sebastian Haffner

Sebastian Haffner (the pseudonym for Raimund Pretzel) was a German journalist and author whose focus was the history of the German Reich (1871-1945). His books dealt with the origins and course of the First World War, the failure of the Weimar Republic and the subsequent rise and fall of Nazi Germany under Hitler.

In 1938 he emigrated from Nazi Germany with his Jewish fiancée to London, hardly able to speak English but becoming rapidly proficient in the language. He adopted the pseudonym Sebastian Haffner so that his family back in Germany would not be endangered by his writing.

Haffner wrote for the London Sunday newspaper, The Observer, and then became its editor-in-chief. In 1954, he became its German correspondent in Berlin, a position w

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Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris was born in Trieste in the year 1939. He graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978.

His most well known book is Danubio (1986), which is a magnum opus. In this book Magris tracks the course of the Danube from its sources to the sea. The whole trip evolves into a colorful, rich canvas of the multicultural European history.

He's translated the works of Ibsen, Kleist and Schnitzler, among others, and he also published essays about Robert Musil, Jorge Luis Borges, Hermann Hesse and many others.

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Annie Ernaux

The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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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.

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

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Carlos María Domínguez

Carlos María Domínguez was born in Buenos Aires in 1955 and has lived in Montevideo, Uruguay since 1989.

He is the author of Mares Baldíos, a collection of short stories, as well as five novels, including La Mujer Hablada, which won the Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize, Tres Muescas en mi Carabina, which won the Juan Carlos Onetti Prize, and The Paper House, which won the Premio de la Fundación Lolita Rubial, Vienna's Jury of Young Readers Prize, and has been translated into 18 languages.

Domínguez's nonfiction work includes Delitos de Amores Crueles, Escritos en el Agua, and El Norte Profundo, as well biographies about Juan Carlos Onetti, Roberto de las Carreras, and Tola Invernizzi. His journalistic articles have been collected in two books: El Com

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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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Kemal Tahir

15 Nisan 1910’da İstanbul’da doğdu. 21 Nisan 1973’te İstanbul’da yaşamını yitirdi. Asıl ismi Kemal Tahir Demir. Deniz yüzbaşı olan babası, Sultan II. Abdulhamid’in yaverlerinden. Babasının görevleri nedeniyle ilk eğitimini Türkiye’nin çeşitli yerlerinde tamamladı. 1923’te İstanbul Kasımpaşa’daki Cezayirli Hasan Paşa Rüştiyesi’nde mezun oldu. Galatasaray Lisesi’nde 10’uncu sınıftayken öğrenimini yarıda bıraktı. Avukat katipliği, Zonguldak Kömür İşletmeleri’nde ambar memurluğu yaptı. İstanbul’da Vakit, Haber, Son Posta gazetelerinde düzeltmenlik, röportaj yazarlığı, çevirmenlik yaptı. Yedigün, Karikatür dergilerinde sayfa sekreteri oldu. Karagöz gazetesinde başyazarlık, Tan gazetesinde yazı işleri müdürlüğü yaptı. 1938’de Nâzım Hikmet’le bera

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Salâh Birsel

1919 yılında Bandırma’da doğdu. Orta öğrenimini İzmir Erkek Lisesi’nde, yüksek öğrenimini İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Bölümü’nde tamamladı. Salâh Birsel’in 1947 yılında çıkan ilk kitabı olan Dünya İşleri, Orhan Veli ve arkadaşlarının Garip yıllarındaki deneylerine uzak kalmayan bir şairden haber verir. Şairanelikten kaçınma özelliği, ince yergi eğilimleri ve yalın söylenmiş dizelerle yansıtma çabasından gelen bir sadeliktir bu.

Özellikle Hacivat’ın Karısı'nda sözcüklerle şaka eder gibi rahatlayınca, yergiciliği de iyice ortaya çıkar. Öfkesini dişlerinin arasına sıkıştırarak bakarken vuracağı yeri arıyor gibidir. Geçmişle hesaplaşırken de tavrını bırakmaz. Kendine özgüyü kişileştirme amacına çok bağlı olduğu için, yaman

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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.

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

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Celil Oker

1952 yılında Kayseri'de doğan yazar, ortaokulu Talas Amerikan Ortaokulu'nda tamamladı. Ardından Tarsus Amerikan Koleji'ni bitirdi. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümüne devam eden Oker 1979 senesindeki mezuniyetinin ardından çevirmenlik, gazetecilik ve ansiklopedi yazarlığı yaptı. Bu işlerin ardından 1983'te reklam yazarlığına başladı. Markom ve Merkez Ajans isimli şirketlerde çalıştı.

Uzun süre reklamcılıkla ilgilendikten sonra 1998 yılında Bilgi Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi'nde öğretim görevlisi olarak çalışmaya başladı. 1999 yılının Nisan ayında ilk romanı Çıplak Ceset'i yayınladı. Aynı senenin Ekim ayında ise Kramponlu Ceset çıktı. Oğlak Yayınları tarafından basılan bu eseri ile Kaktüs Kahvesi Polisiye Roman Birinci

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Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar

Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar was a Turkish writer and politician.

Gürpınar was the son of a family close to the Ottoman court, born in Istanbul. Having lost his mother at an early age, he was sent to Crete where his father was an Ottoman civil servant, however he was soon sent back to Istanbul, where he was brought up by his aunts and grandmothers in Istanbul.

Gürpınar started writing fiction at an early age. He became a civil servant, then a writer and journalist. He later served as a member of parliament in the early years of the Turkish Republic between 1935 and 1943.

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Veronica Raimo

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Orhan Türker

1949'da İstanbul'da doğdu. Moda İlkokulu, Kadıköy Ortaokulu ve Marmara Koleji'nden sonra Gazetecilik Yüksek Okulu'nu bitirdi. Özellikle Moda'da geçen çocukluk yıllarında Rumlarla yakın ilişkisi sonucunda küçük yaşta Yunanca öğrendi. Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu'nda çalışmasının yanı sıra ülkesel Yunanca tercüman-rehber lisansına sahip olması sayesinde turizm alanında da faaliyet gösterdi.

Türker'in çalışmaları İstanbul'dan Yunanistan'a göçmüş Rum okurların da ilgisini çekmiştir. Galata'dan Karaköy'e Bir Liman Hikâyesi, 2008'de Yunancaya çevrilmiş, İstanbul Limanı'nın Hikâyesi adıyla basılmıştır. Yazar, İstanbul Rumları üzerine araştırma ve çalışmalarını Eşi Keti Proku Türker'in de desteğiyle Yunanca kaynaklardan sürdürmekted

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Umut Tümay Arslan

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Sándor Márai

Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
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.
He wrote very enthusiastically about the Vienn

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Önder Kaya

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Ertuğ Uçar

Antalya’da doğdu. İstanbul’da yaşıyor ve mimarlık yapıyor. Yayımlanmış öykü kitapları: Rüya Arızaları (2006), Yalnızlığın 17 Türü (2008), Dünyayı Seyretmek İçin Bir Yer (2010) ve Ormanda Kaybolmak (2014) dışında Bir Çift Ayak (2016) adlı romanı ve Woolf’un İzinde (2017) adlı deneme kitabı var. Ayrıca daha önce Rüya Arızaları ve Yalnızlığın 17 Türü adıyla yayımlanan kitaplarını yeni öyküler de ekleyerek Gece Yolculuğu (2017) adlı kitapta bir araya getirdi.

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Meltem Gürle

Meltem Gürle, 1966 da Almanya'da doğdu. Çocukluğunu İzmir'de, öğrencilik yıllarını İstanbul'da geçirdi. Felsefe ve edebiyat eğitimi aldı. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yabancı Diller Yüksek Okulu'nda edebiyat ve eleştiri dersleri verdi. 2009-2016 arasında BirGün gazetesinde yazdığı edebiyat yazılarından oluşan Kırmızı Kazak (2016) adlı denemeleri, Oğuz Atay'ın Batı kanonuyla diyaloğunu incelediği Ölülerle Konuşmak (2016) adlı bir araştırması ve çocuklar için yazdığı Roko ile Konuşmalar (2018) adlı bir felsefe kitabı vardır.

Meltem Gürle bir süredir Almanya'da yaşıyor ve Duisburg-Essen Üniversitesi'nde edebiyat dersleri veriyor.

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Fikret Adil

(Istanbul, 1901 - Switzerland, 1973)

Fikret Adil was a journalist, writer and translator who made very important contributions to Turkish literature. He used the abbreviation of his name, Fa as a penname. He worked at magazines, newspapers and a variety of government institutions.

Fikret Adil made his name as a journalist in 1920's and 1930's. During the Second World War he worked at the American News Bureau. He also worked as a translator at the Tass and Stefani Agencies. From 1927 onwards he worked in Hungary, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Egypt, England, India, the Netherlands and Pakistan at different times. He wrote down his impressions about the places he lived, and these were later published.

He published a w

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Erhan Altan

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Tuğba Doğan

Tuğba Doğan 1981’de doğdu. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nü bitirdi. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Yüksek Lisans programından “Kaybetmenin Anlatısı: Mai ve Siyah, Huzur ve Tutunamayanlar” başlıklı teziyle mezun oldu. Çeviri ve denemeleri Cogito, Toplumbilim, Notos, Yeniyazı gibi dergilerde ve çeşitli derleme kitaplarda yayımlandı. Çevirmenlik ve senaryo yazarlığı yapıyor.

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Hisashi Kashiwai

Hisashi Kashiwai was born in 1952 and was raised in Kyoto. He graduated from Osaka Dental University. After graduating, he returned to Kyoto and worked as a dentist. He has written extensively about his native city and has collaborated in TV programs and magazines.

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Michiko Aoyama

Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor in Tokyo. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. She lives in Yokohama, Japan.

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Bora Chung

Bora Chung has written three novels and three collections of short stories. She has an MA in Russian and East European area studies from Yale University and a PhD in Slavic literature from Indiana University. She currently teaches Russian language and literature and science fiction studies at Yonsei University and translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean.

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Hwang Bo-Reum

Hwang Bo-reum studied Computer Science and worked as a software engineer. She wrote several essay collections: I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is her first novel, which has sold over 150,000 copies in Korea and been sold into 9 territories. Before its release as a paperback, the novel was initially published as an e-book after winning an open contest co-organised by Korean content-publishing platform ‘Brunch’.

대학에서 컴퓨터공학을 전공하고 LG전자에서 소프트웨어 개발자로 일했다. 몇 번의 입사와 퇴사를 반복하면서도 매일 읽고 쓰는 사람으로서의 정체성은 잃지 않고 있다. 지은 책으로 『매일 읽겠습니다』, 『난생처음 킥복싱』, 『이 정도 거리가 딱 좋다』가 있다.

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Giovanni Scognamillo

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