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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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  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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  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.
  Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu

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  Howard S. Becker

  Howard Saul Becker was an American sociologist who taught at Northwestern University.

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  Oğuz Atay

  Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) was a pioneer of the modern novel in Turkey. His first novel, Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected), appeared 1971-72. Never reprinted in his lifetime and controversial among critics, it has become a best-seller since a new edition came out in 1984. It has been described as “probably the most eminent novel of twentieth-century Turkish literature”: this reference is due to a UNESCO survey, which goes on: “it poses an earnest challenge to even the most skilled translator with its kaleidoscope of colloquialisms and sheer size.” In fact one translation has so far been published, into Dutch: Het leven in stukken, translated by Hanneke van der Heijden and Margreet Dorleijn (Athenaeum-Polak & v Gennep, 2011). It appears also that

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  Bilge Karasu

  Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) was born in Istanbul and became the pre-eminent Turkish modernist writer. Besides short stories and novels he was also a well-known translator. A graduate of the philosophy department of the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University, Mr. Karasu worked in the foreign broadcast department of Radio Ankara until a Rockefeller University scholarship made it possible for him to continue his studies in Europe. After returning to Turkey, he went to work at Hacettepe University, where he lectured in philosophy. In 1963, Mr. Karasu won the Turkish Language Institute’s Translation Award with Olen Adam, for a translation of D. H. Lawrence’s The Man Who Died. By that time, he had begun to experiment with new forms of expression

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  Fakir Baykurt

  Asıl adı Tahir olan Fakir Baykurt 1929 yılında Burdur’da doğdu. 1948’de Gönen Köy Enstitüsü’nü bitirdikten sonra köy öğretmeni olarak çalışan yazar, 1955’te Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü’ndeki eğitimini tamamladıktan sonra Sivas, Hafik ve Şavşat’ta Türkçe öğretmenliği yaptı. Demokrat Parti yönetimi tarafından öğretmenlikten alınarak pasif bir göreve getirildi.
  
  1958’de Cumhuriyet gazetesinde yayımlanan ilk romanı Yılanların Öcü nedeniyle hakkında kovuşturma açıldı. 1960 yılındaki askeri müdahalenin ardından ilköğretim müfettişliğine getirildi.
  
  1962-63 yıllarında ABD Bloomington Indiana Üniversitesi’nde ders araçları konusunda uzmanlık eğitimi gören Baykurt, Türkiye Öğretmenler Sendikası’nın (TÖS) ve Türkiye Öğretmenler Dernekleri Milli Federasyonu’n

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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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  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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  José Saramago

  José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which have been seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today."
  
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  Ferit Edgü

  1936’da İstanbul’da doğdu. İstanbul Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi Resim Bölümü’nde başladığı öğrenimini Paris’te sürdürdü. 1976-1990 yılları arasında, kurucusu olduğu Ada Yayınları’nda, çağdaş Türk ve dünya yazarlarının, şairlerinin yapıtlarını yayınladı. Edebiyatın çeşitli alanlarında onlarca ürün verdi. "Bir Gemide" adlı kitabıyla 1979 Sait Faik Armağanı, "Ders Notları" ile 1979 Türk Dil Kurumu Ödülü, "Eylülün Gölgesinde Bir Yazdı" ile 1988 Sedat Simavi Edebiyat Ödülü’nü aldı. Abidin Dino, Yüksel Arslan, Bedri Rahmi, Eren Eyüboğlu, Füreya, Aliye Berger, Ergin İnan gibi sanatçılar üzerine yayınlanmış kitapları vardır.

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  Yusuf Atılgan

  Yusuf Atılgan (27 June 1921, Manisa - 9 October 1989, İstanbul) was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) and Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel). He is one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel.
  
  Atılgan is considered as one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel. His novels had a psychological style, digging into themes such as loneliness, questioning, meaning of life.
  
  Atılgan finished middle school in Manisa, then high school in Balıkesir. He graduated in Turkish language and literature from İstanbul University. He finished his thesis titled Tokatlı Kani: Sanat, şahsiyet ve psikoloji under supervision of Nihat Tarlan. Atılgan then began teaching literature at Maltepe Askeri Lise

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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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  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.
  
  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

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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.
  
  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

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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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  Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu

  Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, (d. 27 Mart 1889, Kahire, Mısır – ö. 3 Aralık 1974, Ankara). Türk romancı, gazeteci, şair, diplomat.
  
  Roman, öykü ve makaleleri ile Türk toplumunun Tanzimat’tan bu yana geçirdiği değişiklikleri anlatmış bir yazardır. Asıl ününü romanları ile sağlayan yazarın en ünlü romanları Nur Baba, Kiralık Konak ve Yaban'dır. Edebiyat yaşamının başında Fecr-i Ati edebiyat topluluğunun kurucu üyeleri arasında yer almış; daha sonra ferdiyetçi düşüncelerden uzaklaşarak toplumcu edebiyatı kabul etmiş bir yazar olarak değerlendirilir.
  
  Milli Mücadele yıllarında ve sonrasında etkin bir siyasal yaşam sürmüştür. Milli Mücadeleden itibaren Atatürk’ün yakın arkadaşları arasında yer almış; TBMM II., IV., XII. dönemlerde milletvekiliği yapmış

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  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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  Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar

  He was born in the mansion of his maternal grandfather Muhtar Bey in Rumelihisarı. Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar's childhood was spent in Rumelihisarı, Büyükada and Çamlıca. In 1898, he entered Galatasaray Sultanisi.
  Without informing his family, he left Galatasaray Sultanisi in 1905 and went to Paris. He attended the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris until 1908. In Paris, he frequently met with Prince Sebahattin, Dr. Nihat Reşat Belger, Ahmet Rıza Bey and Yahya Kemal.
  
  He returned to Turkey after the declaration of the Second Constitutional Monarchy (1908). He worked for French and German companies, the Ottoman Bank, the Reji Administration, and after 1931 he settled in Ankara and worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1948, he ret

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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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  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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  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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  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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  Zülfü Livaneli

  Müzisyen, Yazar, Yönetmen, Politikacı.
  
  Tam adı Ömer Zülfü Livaneli’dir. 1946 yılında Konya-Ilgın’da doğan Livaneli, yazarlık kimliğinin yanında saygın bir müzisyendir. Müziği ile birçok ulusal ve uluslararası ödül almış ve eserleri John Baez, Maria Farandouri gibi sanatçılar tarafından yorumlanmıştır. Kültür, sanat ve politika alanında Türkiye’nin önemli isimlerinden birisi olan sanatçı, sanat yaşamı boyunca 300’e yakın besteye ve 30 film müziğine imzasını attı.
  
  Bugüne kadar üç uzun metrajlı film yönetti; "Yer Demir Gök Bakır", "Sis" ve "Şahmeran". Valencia Film Festivali'nde "Altın Palmiye" ve 1989'da Montpelier Film Festivali'nde "Altın Antigone" ödülüne layık görüldü. "Sis", "En iyi Avrupa Film Ödülü"ne aday gösterildi. Sanatçının filmleri

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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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