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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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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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.
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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.
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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. -
Judith Hermann
Judith Hermann is a German author.
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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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Gianrico Carofiglio
Gianrico Carofiglio (born 1961) is a novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the Italian city of Bari. His debut novel, Involuntary Witness, was published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh and published by the Bitter Lemon Press, and has been adapted as the basis for a popular television series in Italy. The subsequent novels were translated by Howard Curtis.
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Carofiglio won the 2005 Premio Bancarella award for his novel "Il passato è una terra straniera". He is also Honorary President of The Edinburgh Gadda Prize which celebrates the work of Carlo Emilio Gadda.
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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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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.
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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"). -
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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Jean-Louis Fournier
Auteur prolifique, Jean-Louis Fournier a toujours su mêler humour, culture et sincérité. Entre un frère polytechnicien et une soeur éducatrice spécialisée, il choisit la voie de l'humour et devient le fidèle complice de Pierre Desproges. Il réalise ainsi les épisodes de 'La Minute nécessaire de Monsieur Cyclopède', ainsi que les captations de ses spectacles au théâtre Grévin en 1984 et au théâtre Fontaine en 1986. Mais c'est en tant qu'auteur facétieux et touchant que le public le découvre véritablement. Avec ses essais humoristiques, Jean-Louis Fournier rencontre un succès immédiat. Dans 'Arithmétique appliquée et impertinente' (1993), il apprend au lecteur à calculer le poids du cerveau d'un imbécile ou la quantité de caviar que peut ache
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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 -
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.
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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 -
Grigory Petrov
(1868 - 1925), Orthodox priest and a leading proponent of Christian social activism.
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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 -
Memduh Şevket Esendal
Diplomat and politician Esendal, who served as ambassador in Tehran, Baku and Kabul, as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for four terms, and as Secretary General of the CHP between 1941 and 1945, was also a well-known literary figure. Although he was only seriously engaged in literature for nine years of his life (1923-1926, 1946-1952), he became an important figure in Turkish short story writing. He is the representative of situation storytelling in Turkish literature. His best known work is the novel Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları (Ayaşlı and the Tenants) published in 1934.
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Engin Geçtan
Uzmanlık alanı psikiyatri olan Engin Geçtan 1975-1987 yılları arasında meslek dışı okuyucular tarafından da ilgiyle karşılanan dört kitap yazdı. Çok sayıda basım yapmış ve yapmakta olan, kendi bilimsel disipliniyle ilgili bu dörtlünün ardından (İnsan Olmak, Varoluşçu Psikiyatri, Normaldışı Davranışlar ve Psikanaliz ve Sonrası), psikiyatri alanının çerçevesinden çıkma isteği doğrultusunda roman-senaryo çalışmalarına başladı. Ankara ve İstanbul'daki dört üniversitede öğretim üyeliği yaptı ve psikoterapist olarak çalıştı.
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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.
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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 -
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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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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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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Ahmet Büke
1997 yılında Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi İktisat bölümünden mezun oldu. Ölümsüz Öyküler Yayınevi'nin düzenlediği 'Xasiork 2002 Kısa Öykü Yarışması'nda Kayıp Dua Kitabı isimli hikâyesi birincilik ödülüne layık görüldü. 2008'de Alnı Mavide ile Oğuz Atay Öykü Ödülü'nü, 2011'de Kumrunun Gördüğü adlı kitabı ile Sait Faik Hikâye Armağanı'nı aldı. Öyküleri, e edebiyat, AdamÖykü, Özgür Edebiyat ve Patika dergilerinde yayımlandı. Sosyal Ayrıntılar Ansiklopedisi ve Derkenar isimli internet dergilerinde kısa öyküler yazmaya devam ediyor.
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F. Marion Crawford
Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author's promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story (1883). After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis (1898), Rulers of the South (1900) renamed Sicily, Calab
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Selahattin Enis
1892 yılında Antalya’da doğdu. Aslen Gürcistan’daki Atabek hanedanından gelir. Bu yüzden sonraları Atabeyoğlu soyadını aldı. Babası Jandarma Albayı Ahmet Enis, annesi Çeşme eşrafından bir ailenin kızı olan Naime Hanım’dır. İlk ve ortaöğrenimini babasının tayinleri dolayısıyla Anadolu’nun çeşitli yerlerinde tamamladı. Hukuk fakültesine girdi. Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nın çıkması üzerine öğrenimi yarım kaldı. Yedek subay olarak askerlik görevine başladı. Savaştan sonra Demiryolları’nda çalıştı, Ayan Meclisi katipliği, Denizyolları müfettişliği ve yayıncılık faaliyetlerinde bulundu. 11 Haziran 1942’de İstanbul’da vefat etti, Feriköy mezarlığına gömüldü.
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Avelina Lésper
Avelina Lésper es una escritora, historiadora, columnista y crítica de arte mexicana. Es autora del libro El fraude del arte contemporáneo y es una opositora de algunas de las corrientes del arte contemporáneo como el performance, el videoarte y la instalación.
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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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Ahmed Midhat Efendi
Ahmet Mithat was an Ottoman journalist, author, translator, and publisher during the Tanzimat period. In his works, he was known as Ahmet Mithat Efendi, in order to distinguish him from the contemporary politician Midhat Pasha. Ahmet Mithat Efendi adopted his name in homage to Ahmed Şefik Midhat Pasha, with whom he had been associated professionally, serving as an official and newspaper editor in Midhat Pasha's Vilayet of the Danube.
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He was a prolific writer, with more than 250 of his works having survived to the present day. In 1878, he began publishing a newspaper entitled Tercüman-ı Hakikat (Interpreter of Truth). Prior to this, he was a contributor to Basiret, a newspaper published between 1870 and 1879. His editorship and publication of -
Feridun M. Emecen
1979 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Yeniçağ Tarihi Kürsüsünden mezun oldu. 1989 yılında doçent, 1995 yılında profesör oldu. Akademik çalışmalarını 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümünde sürdürmektedir.
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Talât Paşa
Mehmed Talât, Osmanlı Hürriyet Cemiyeti'nin kurucu lideri ve İttihat ve Terakki’nin kurucularından ve önde gelen liderlerinden olan Osmanlı devlet adamıdır. 1908 ihtilâlinin hazırlanmasında önemli rol oynayan Talat Bey, 1908-1918 arasında Osmanlı Devleti siyasetine yön veren en önemli aktörlerden biri olmuştur.
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