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Fethiye Çetin

Fethiye Çetin is a Turkish lawyer, writer and human rights activist.

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Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967 in East Berlin) is a German director and writer.

Jenny Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her grandparents are the authors Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner. In Berlin she attended an Advanced High School, where she graduated in 1985. She then completed a two-year apprenticeship as a bookbinder before working at several theaters as props and wardrobe supervisor.

From 1988 to 1990 Erpenbeck studied theatre at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1990 she changed her studies to Music Theater Director (studying with, among others, Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller and Peter Konwitschny) at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory. Aft

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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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Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr was a British author. He was best known for his Bernie Gunther series of 13 historical thrillers and a children's series, Children of the Lamp, under the name P.B. Kerr.

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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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Petros Markaris

Petros Markaris (Greek: Πέτρος Μάρκαρης) was born in Istanbul to an Armenian father and a Greek mother. He is one of the most successful living Greek authors. After studying economics, Markaris went on to work as a screenplay writer. He has lived in Germany and Austria for several years and translated Goethe and Brecht into Greek. International fame came through his series of crime novels featuring the eccentric Athenian detective Kostas Haritos, of which there are now five. Markaris lives in Athens and also co-writes film scripts with Theo Angelopoulos.

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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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Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).

His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl

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Nikolai Gogol

People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).

Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.

Gogol first used the techniques of surrealism and the grotesque in his works The Nose , Viy ,

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Murathan Mungan

21 Nisan 1955 tarihinde İstanbul'da dünyaya geldi. Mardinli bir ailenin çocuğudur. Babası avukat İsmail Mungan, annesi Habibe Mungan'dır. İlk, orta ve lise yılları Mardin'de geçti; Mardin Lisesi'nden mezun oldu. Mardin eserlerinde sıkça kullandığı mekanlardan birisi oldu. Bu çevrenin taşıdığı farklı kültürel yapıyı, insan olgusunu eserlerine başarılı bir şekilde yansıttı. Yazar, 1972'de Ankara'ya yerleşti. Lisans ve yüksek lisansını Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Tiyatro Bölümü’nde tamamladıktan sonra başladığı doktora çalışmasını yarım bıraktı, Ankara Devlet Tiyatroları’nda altı yıl, İstanbul Şehir Tiyatroları’nda üç yıl dramaturg olarak çalıştı. Gazete ve dergilerdeki ilk yazılarını 1975’te yayımlayan Mungan; yazı hay

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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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Haldun Taner

Haldun Taner, a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer.He was born on March 16, 1915 in Istanbul. After graduating from the Galatasaray High School in 1935, he studied politics and economy at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, until a serious health problem forced him to return to Turkey, where he graduated from the Faculty of German Literature and Linguistics in 1950. He also studied theatre and philosophy at the University of Vienna between 1955 and 1957 under the direction of Heinz Kindermann (1894–1985), an Austrian theater and literary scholar.

As a well-disciplined writer accumulating a rich blend of culture, Taner wrote a great number of stories, generally humorous; essays, newspaper columns, travel writings and th

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Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey has completed postgraduate courses in philosophy and in Creative Writing. In addition to writing, she has traveled extensively and taught in Japan and has lived in Ireland and New Zealand. She recently co-founded an environmental charity and lives in Bath, England.

Her first novel, The Wilderness, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and won the 2009 Betty Trask Prize.

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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.
Hikâyeleri 1971'den itibaren dergilerde yayınlanmaya başladı. Müstehcenlik yüzünden tenkide uğradı.

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Ayfer Tunç

Erenköy Kız Lisesi'nin ardından İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi'nden mezun oldu. Üniversite yıllarında çeşitli edebiyat ve kültür dergilerine yazılar yazmaya başladı. Edebiyat üzerine ilk yazılarını 1983 yılından itibaren çeşitli dergilerde yayımladı. 1989 yılında gazeteciliğe başladı. Sokak dergisinde, Güneş ve Yeni Yüzyıl gazetelerinde çalıştı. 1989 yılında "Saklı" başlıklı öyküsüyle Cumhuriyet gazetesinin verdiği Yunus Nadi Öykü Ödülü'nü kazandı. 1999-2004 yılları arasında Yapı Kredi Yayınları'nda yayın yönetmeni olarak çalıştı. 2001 yılında yayımlanan Bir Maniniz Yoksa Annemler Size Gelecek başlıklı yapıtı, 2003 yılında altı Balkan ülkesinin katılımıyla düzenlenen Balkanika Ödülü'nü kazandı ve altı Balkan diline çevrilm

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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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Şükran Yiğit

1961’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Ankara’da büyüdü. ODTÜ Endüstri Mühendisliği mezunu ve halen Frankfurt’ta yaşıyor. Romanları Ankara Mon Amour 2003, Bir Akdeniz Kedisinin Hatıraları 2004, Çatıkatı Aşıkları 2008 yılında yayımlandı. Bu romanları yazmasının nedeni "yazı yazmanın" kendisine olan takıntısı değil, anlatmak istediği öyküler olduğunu sanmasıdır.

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Hikmet Hükümenoğlu

1971 yılında İstanbul'da doğdu. Robert Kolej'den, sonra Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Fizik ve ardından Koç Üniversitesi MBA bölümlerinden mezun oldu. Dokuz yıl boyunca çeşitli yatırım bankaları ve aracı kurumlarda analist ve üst düzey yönetici olarak çalıştı. 2004 yılında finans sektörünü terk ettiğinden beri zamanının büyük bir kısmını yazarak ve müzik yaparak geçiriyor.

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İsmail Güzelsoy

İsmail Güzelsoy 1963 yılında Iğdır'da doğdu. Ortaöğrenimini İstanbul'da tamamladı. İstanbul Üniversitesi Basın Yayın Yüksekokulu'ndan ayrılıp İsveç'e gitti. İsveç'te yaşadığı üç yıl boyunca İsveç dili ve edebiyatı üzerine çalıştı.

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Ivan Goncharov

Russian novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (/ˈɡɒntʃəˌrɔːf, -ˌrɒf/; Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в), best known for his novels A Common Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869). He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.

Goncharov was born into the family of a wealthy merchant, elevated as a reward for military service of his grandfather to gentry status. A boarding school, then the Moscow college of commerce, and finally Moscow State University educated him. After graduating, he served for a short time in the office of the governor of Simbirsk before moving to Saint Petersburg, where he worked as government translator and private tutor, while publishing poetry and fict

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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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Defne Suman

Defne Suman was born in Istanbul and grew up on Prinkipo Island. She gained a Masters in sociology from the Bosphorus University and then worked as a teacher in Thailand and Laos, where she studied Far Eastern philosophy and mystic disciplines. She later continued her studies in Oregon, USA and now lives in Athens with her husband. The Silence of Scheherazade was first published in Turkey and Greece in 2016 and is her English language debut.

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Miguel Bonnefoy

Miguel Bonnefoy was born in France in 1986 to a Venezuelan mother and a Chilean father. In 2013, he was awarded the Prix du Jeune Ecrivain, which has previously helped to launch the careers of writers such as Marie Darrieussecq. Octavio's Journey is Bonnefoy's first novel, written in French.

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Sadegh Hedayat

Iranian author who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century.

هدایت از پیشگامان داستان‌نویسی نوین ایران و از روشنفکران برجسته ایرانی بود. برترین اثر وی رمان بوف کور است که آن را جزو مشهورترین آثار ادبیات داستانی معاصر ایران دانسته‌اند. حجم آثار و مقالات نوشته شده درباره نوشته‌ها، نوع زندگی و خودکشی صادق هدایت بیانگر تأثیر ژرف او بر جریان روشنفکری ایران است. هرچند شهرت عام هدایت نویسندگی است، آثاری از نویسندگان بزرگ را نیز ترجمه کرده‌است. صادق هدایت در ۱۹ فروردین سال ۱۳۳۰ در پاریس خودکشی کرد. آرامگاه وی در گورستان پرلاشز پاریس واقع است

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Serdar Korucu

Serdar Korucu, 1984 yılında İstanbul’da doğdu. İstanbul Üniversitesi’nde felsefe öğrenimi gördü. Çeşitli televizyon kanallarının haber merkezlerinde ve haber program bölümlerinde editör/yapımcı/danışman olarak çalıştı. Ulusal/uluslararası medya mecralarında dezavantajlı gruplar ve nefret söylemi üzerine haber, röportaj ve özel dosyalar hazırladı. 2012’den beri CNN Türk-Kanal D’de editörlük yapıyor.

Yayımlanmış çalışmaları: Yabancı Gazetecilerin Gözüyle Kürt Sorunu (Güncel Yayıncılık, 2009); Suriye Yerle Bir Olduktan Sonra (Hayata Destek Derneği, 2013); 2015’ten 50 Yıl Önce, 1915’ten 50 Yıl Sonra: 1965 (Aris Nalcı ile birlikte, Ermeni Kültür Derneği, 2014); Patriklik Fotoğrafçısı Dimitrios Kalumenos’un Objektifinden 6-7 Eylül 1955 (İstos Yay

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Selahattin Demirtaş

Selahattin Demirtaş is a Zaza Kurdish politician who is co-leader of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), serving alongside Figen Yüksekdağ. Demirtaş was the presidential candidate of the HDP in the 2014 election, coming in 3rd place with 9.77% of the vote.

Selahattin Demirtaş was born in a Zaza-speaking family in Elazığ in 1973 where he completed both his primary and secondary education.

Upon graduation from secondary school, he took the university entrance exam and started his college education in Dokuz Eylül University in the department of Maritime Commerce and Management where he would face political problems that would force him to leave school without finishing his degree. He returned to Diyarbakır and retook the u

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Young-ha Kim

Kim Young-ha is the author of seven novels, including the acclaimed I Have the Right to Destroy Myself and Black Flower - and five short story collections.

He has won every major Korean literature award, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Seoul, South Korea.

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Serdar Korucu

Serdar Korucu, 1984 yılında İstanbul’da doğdu. İstanbul Üniversitesi’nde felsefe öğrenimi gördü. Çeşitli televizyon kanallarının haber merkezlerinde ve haber program bölümlerinde editör/yapımcı/danışman olarak çalıştı. Ulusal/uluslararası medya mecralarında dezavantajlı gruplar ve nefret söylemi üzerine haber, röportaj ve özel dosyalar hazırladı. 2012’den beri CNN Türk-Kanal D’de editörlük yapıyor.

Yayımlanmış çalışmaları: Yabancı Gazetecilerin Gözüyle Kürt Sorunu (Güncel Yayıncılık, 2009); Suriye Yerle Bir Olduktan Sonra (Hayata Destek Derneği, 2013); 2015’ten 50 Yıl Önce, 1915’ten 50 Yıl Sonra: 1965 (Aris Nalcı ile birlikte, Ermeni Kültür Derneği, 2014); Patriklik Fotoğrafçısı Dimitrios Kalumenos’un Objektifinden 6-7 Eylül 1955 (İstos Yay

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