Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Türk şair, veteriner hekim, öğretmen, vaiz, hafız, Kur'an mütercimi ve siyasetçi.
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin ulusal marşı olan İstiklâl Marşı'nın yazarıdır. "Vatan Şairi" ve "Milli Şair" unvanları ile anılır. Çanakkale Destanı, Bülbül, Safahat en önemli eserlerindendir. II. Meşrutiyet döneminden itibaren Sırat-ı Müstakim (daha sonraki adıyla Sebil'ür-Reşad) dergisinin başyazarlığını yapmıştır. Kurtuluş Savaşı sırasında milletvekili olarak 1. TBMM'de yer almıştır.
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Bir süre Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi'nde öğrenim gördükten sonra, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Fransız Dili ve Edebiyatı’ndan mezun oldu. 18 yıl Devlet Konservatuvarı’nda Fransızca okutmanlığı yaptı. Ataol Behramoğlu'yla birlikte Halkın Dostları dergisini kurdu ve yönetti. 1963’ten itibaren şiirleri yayımlanmaya başladı. 1974’te düşünsel ve ruhsal bir değişim yaşayarak yazı hayatına İslami düşünce çerçevesinde devam etti. Uzun yıllar çeşitli gazetelerde köşe yazarlığı yaptı. 2005’te Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği deneme ve üstün hizmet ödülünü kazandı. 9 şiir, 22 deneme, söyleşi, mektup ve 5 çeviri kitabına imza attı.
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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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Sun Tzu
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Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell was an English novelist who wrote the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work. It is considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children, although the author intended it for adults. Sewell died only five months after the publication of Black Beauty, but long enough to see her only novel become a success.
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Karl Marx
With the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.
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German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
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Victor Hugo
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
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This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad. -
Michio Kaku
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Russian: Митио Каку
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Dr. Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist at the City College of New York , best-selling author, a futurist, and a communicator and popularizer of science. He has written several books about physics and related topics of science.
He has written two New York Times Best Sellers, Physics of the Impossible (2008) and Physics of the Future (2011).
Dr. Michio is the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein’s search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory.
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Romain Gary
Romain Gary was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. He also wrote under the pen name Émile Ajar .
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Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: קצב, Russian: Кацев), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.
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A prolific publicist, he became a well-known figure, along with Mircea Eliade, Constantin Noïca, and his future close friend Eugene Ionesco (with whom he shared the Royal Foundation’s Young Writers Prize in 1934 for his first book, On the Heights of Despair). -
Adam Fawer
Adam Fawer (born 1970 in New York City) is an American Novelist. Improbable, his first novel, has been translated into more than five languages and won the 2006 International Thriller Writers Award for best first novel. His second novel, Empathy, has been published in 2008 in German, Japanese and Turkish.
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Fawer holds undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. During his corporate career, Fawer worked for a variety of companies including Sony Music, J.P. Morgan, and most recently, About.com, where he was the chief operating officer.
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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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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
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Jean Teulé
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Auteur de bande dessinée dans un premier temps, il a débuté à la télévision dans L'assiette anglaise de Bernard Rapp ou Nulle part ailleurs sur Canal+.
Homme de télévision, scénariste, comédien, cinéaste, il est avant tout écrivain. Ayant abandonné toute autre activité, il se consacre désormais à l’écriture. Il a publié, aux Éditions Julliard, Rainbow pour Rimbaud (1991), L'Œil de Pâques (1992), Ballade pour un père oublié (1995), Darling (1998) et Bord cadre (1999), Longues Peines, Les Lois de la gravité, Ô Verlaine ! (2004), Je, François Villon (2006), Le Magasin des suicides (2007). Finalement, en 2008 "Le Montespan". Tous ses livr -
Doğan Cüceloğlu
Doğan Cüceloğlu, kırktan fazla bilimsel makalesi yayınlanan bir psikolog ve çeşitli topluluklara bilimsel psikoloji çerçevesinde gelişim seminerleri sunan bir iletişim psikolojisi uzmanıdır. Çok sayıdaki kişisel gelişim kitabı ile Türk insanının düşünce, duygu ve davranışlarını inceler.
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Mersin'in Silifke kasabasında 11 çocuklu bir ailenin 11. çocuğu olarak dünyaya gelmiş ve ortaokulu orada bitirmiştir. Ankara ve Kırklareli'de liseyi bitirip İstanbul Üniversitesi Psikoloji bölümünden mezun olmuştur. ABD'de Illinois Üniversitesi'nde Bilişsel Psikoloji doktorasını yapmıştır.
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Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Ali Riza, a customs official, turned lumber merchant, fathered Mustafa, and died during his boyhood. Zubeyde, his mother, a devout and strong-willed woman, reared him and his sister. People first enrolled him in a traditional religious school, but he quickly switched. In 1893, he entered a military high school, where his mathematics teacher gave the second name Kemal, meaning perfection, to young Mustafa in recognition of superior achievement. People thereafter knew him as Mustafa Kemal.
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Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Reşat Nuri Güntekin (Istanbul, 25 November 1889 - London, 13 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter and playwright. His novel, Çalıkuşu ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia; the movie was filmed on this book in 1966, and remade as TV series in 1986. His narrative has a detailed and precise style, with a realistic tone. His other significant novels include Yeşil Gece ("Green Night") and Yaprak Dökümü ("The Fall Of Leaves")
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Biography
His father was a major in the army. Reşat Nuri attended primary school in Çanakkale, the Çanakkale Secondary School and the İzmir School of Freres. He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature in 1912. He worked as a teacher and administra -
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 -
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 -
Samipaşazade Sezai
Sami Paşazade Sezai (Osmanlıca: سامى باشا زاده سزائى), (d. 1859 İstanbul - ö. 26 Nisan 1936 İstanbul) Türk realist öykücü, romancı.
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Türk Edebiyatının ilk gerçekçi romanlarından birisi olma özelliğiyle edebiyat tarihinde büyük önem taşıyan “Sergüzeşt” adlı romanın yazarıdır. Türk edebiyatında modern kısa hikâyenin kurucularındandır.
1859 yılında İstanbul’da dünyaya geldi. Tanzimat devrinin ileri gelen isimlerinden, Osmanlı Devleti’nin ilk Maarif Nazırı (Eğitim bakanı) Abdurrahman Sami Paşa ile Paşa’nın ikinci eşi olan Dilarayiş Hanım’ın[1] oğludur.
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Birhan Keskin
Birhan Keskin 1963 yılında Kırklareli'nde doğdu. 1986 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Bölümü'nü bitirdi. İlk şiirini 1984 yılında yayımladı. 1995-98 yılları arasında arkadaşlarıyla birlikte Göçebe dergisini çıkardı. Çeşitli yayın kuruluşlarında editör olarak çalıştı. Şairin 1991 ile 2002 arasına ait beş şiir kitabını 2005 yılında yayımladığımız Kim Bağışlayacak Beni ile tek ciltte topladık. 2005'te onun yanı sıra sunduğumuz Ba, 2006 Altın Portakal Şiir ödülünü kazandı. 2010'da yayımlanan Soğuk Kazı ise 2011 Metin Altıok Şiir Ödülü'nü aldı.
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İsmet Özel
İsmet Özel, şair ve yazar.
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Bir süre Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi'nde öğrenim gördükten sonra, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Fransız Dili ve Edebiyatı’ndan mezun oldu. 18 yıl Devlet Konservatuvarı’nda Fransızca okutmanlığı yaptı. Ataol Behramoğlu'yla birlikte Halkın Dostları dergisini kurdu ve yönetti. 1963’ten itibaren şiirleri yayımlanmaya başladı. 1974’te düşünsel ve ruhsal bir değişim yaşayarak yazı hayatına İslami düşünce çerçevesinde devam etti. Uzun yıllar çeşitli gazetelerde köşe yazarlığı yaptı. 2005’te Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği deneme ve üstün hizmet ödülünü kazandı. 9 şiir, 22 deneme, söyleşi, mektup ve 5 çeviri kitabına imza attı.
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Ivan Goncharov
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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 -
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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