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Niyazi Berkes

1908’de Kıbrıs’ta doğdu. 1927’de İstanbul Lisesi’ni bitirdikten sonra İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Bölümü’nde felsefe ve sosyoloji öğrenimi gördü. Bu sırada aynı fakültenin Tarih bölümünden de sertifika alan Berkes, bir süre Ankara’da Türk Ocağı Kütüphanesi’nde ve Türk Eğitim Derneği’nin kurduğu deneme lisesinde öğretmenlik ve müdürlük yaptı. 1934’te üniversitenin yeniden yapılanması sırasında Edebiyat Fakültesi’nin Felsefe Bölümü’nde sosyoloji asistanı oldu. Bir yıl sonra ABD’ye giderek Chicago Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nde çalıştı. 1939’da Türkiye’ye döndükten sonra Ankara’da Dil, Tarih ve Coğrafya Fakültesi’ndeki sosyoloji doçenti olarak göreve başlayan Berkes, 1945’e kadar burada çalıştı. Aynı yıl tasfiye hareket

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
After his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran. In total, 20 countries bann

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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).

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.

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Alexander Pushkin

Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.

See also:
Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
French: Alexandre Pouchkine
Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin
Spanish:Aleksandr Pushkin

People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.

Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the

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Thomas Mann

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Serbian: Tomas Man

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l

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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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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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Jean-Christophe Grangé

Jean-Christophe Grangé est un journaliste, reporter international, écrivain, scénariste né le 15 juillet 1961 à Boulogne-Billancourt. Il est l'un des rares écrivains français dans le domaine du thriller à s'être fait un nom aux États-Unis.
Après une maîtrise de lettres à la Sorbonne (axée sur Gustave Flaubert), il devient rédacteur publicitaire, puis travaille pour une agence de presse. En 1989, à 28 ans, il devient grand reporter international, travaillant pour des magazines aussi divers que Paris Match, le Sunday Times ou le National Geographic.
Puis il devient journaliste indépendant en créant la société L & G. Dès lors, il se débrouille pour monter financièrement tous ses voyages lui-même. Les reportages qui en sont issus, le mènent aux q

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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.

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").

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Hiromi Kawakami

Kawakami Hiromi (川上弘美 Kawakami Hiromi) born April 1, 1958, is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.

Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku ("Diptera"), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and wrote her first book, a collection of short stories entitled God (Kamisama) published in 1994. Her novel The Teacher's Briefcase (Sensei no kaban) is a love story between a woman in her thirties and a man in his sixties. She is also known as a literary critic and a provocative essayist.

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Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.

In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.

Hjorth has three children and lives in Asker.

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İhsan Oktay Anar

Türk yazardır. Lisans, master ve doktora eğitimini Ege Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nde yaptı. Aynı okulda öğretim üyeliğinden emekli olmuştur.

Her bir kitabının çok uzun araştırmalardan sonra yazıldığı içerdikleri ağır tarihi bilgi ile göze çarpar. Eserleri pek çok küçük hikâye etrafında örülmüş büyük bir roman biçimindedir.

Yazın biçim göndermeler içerir. Kabaca birkaç örnek vermek gerekirse Amat'taki İsrafil adlı çocuğun gemi borazancısı olup diriliş düdüğünü çalışı islamiyette kıyamet haberi olan borazanı çalacak meleğe, alt ambar toprak altına ve mezara göndermeler ya da modellemelerdir. Bu üslup okuyucuyu hem yetiştirir, hem geliştirir. Umberto Eco bu biçimde gelişen okuru ampirik okurdan ayırmaktadır. Her gerçek yazar aslında bu tip inc

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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.

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

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Niyazi Berkes

1908’de Kıbrıs’ta doğdu. 1927’de İstanbul Lisesi’ni bitirdikten sonra İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Bölümü’nde felsefe ve sosyoloji öğrenimi gördü. Bu sırada aynı fakültenin Tarih bölümünden de sertifika alan Berkes, bir süre Ankara’da Türk Ocağı Kütüphanesi’nde ve Türk Eğitim Derneği’nin kurduğu deneme lisesinde öğretmenlik ve müdürlük yaptı. 1934’te üniversitenin yeniden yapılanması sırasında Edebiyat Fakültesi’nin Felsefe Bölümü’nde sosyoloji asistanı oldu. Bir yıl sonra ABD’ye giderek Chicago Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nde çalıştı. 1939’da Türkiye’ye döndükten sonra Ankara’da Dil, Tarih ve Coğrafya Fakültesi’ndeki sosyoloji doçenti olarak göreve başlayan Berkes, 1945’e kadar burada çalıştı. Aynı yıl tasfiye hareket

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Ahmet Ümit

Ahmet Ümit was born in 1960 in the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. He moved to Istanbul in 1978 to attend university. In 1983 he both graduated from the Public Administration Faculty of Marmara University and wrote his very first story. An active member of the Turkish Communist Party from 1974 until 1989 Ümit took part in the underground movement for democracy while Turkey was under the rule of a
military dictatorship between 1980-1990. In 1985-86 he illegally attended the Academy for Social Sciences in Moscow. Ümit worked in the advertising sector from 1989-1998 and is currently employed as cultural advisor at the Goethe Foundation in Istanbul. He has one daughter Gül. Since 1989 Ümit has published one volume of poetry three volumes o

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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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Hulûsi Turgut

İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi’nin Maliye-Sosyal Siyaset Bölümü’nde tamamladı; aynı üniversitede, “Türkiye’de Bulvar Gazeteciliği” üzerine yüksek lisans yaptı. Gazetecilik mesleğine 1961 yılında, Kayseri’deki Erciyes Postası gazetesinde başladı. Akşam ve Güneş gazetelerinde Yazı İşleri Müdürü, Türk Haberler Ajansı’nda İç Haberler Editörü, Sabah gazetesinde araştırma yazarı, BRT TV’de Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, İstanbul Üniversitesi ile Kadir Has Üniversitesi’nin iletişim fakültelerinde öğretim görevlisi ve ABC Basın Ajansı’nda da Genel Müdür olarak görev yaptı. Hürriyet, Milliyet, Sabah, Akşam, Güneş, Günaydın, Tercüman ve Yeni Yüzyıl gazetelerinde, çok sayıda araştırma ve belgesel yazı dizisi yayımlandı.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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Han Kang

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소설가 한강

Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

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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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Dave Grohl

David Eric Grohl is an American musician. He rose to fame as the drummer for the grunge band Nirvana and sustained a high level of post-Nirvana with the alternative rock band Foo Fighters. He is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures.

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Mahir Ünsal Eriş

1980’de Çanakkale’de doğdu. Arkeoloji ve tarih okudu. Hayatını çeviriler yaparak ve yazarak sürdürüyor. Gençlerbirliklidir; söylenişi bile güzel. Kitapları: Bangır Bangır Ferdi Çalıyor Evde... (2012), (book: Olduğu Kadar Güzeldik] (2013) (60. Sait Faik Hikâye Armağanı), Dünya Bu Kadar (2015), Benim Adım Feridun (2016), Öbürküler (2017). Kara Yarısı (2019), Sarıyaz (2019), Diğerleri (2020), Gaip (2022), Babil Kulesi Kitabı (2023), Acaip (2023), Tatil Kitabı (2024), Bin 9 Yüz Seksen 3

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Elçin Poyrazlar

1975 Bursa doğumlu. ODTÜ’de işletme okuduktan sonra Belçika’da Avrupa Birliği ve Uluslararası İlişkiler bölümlerinde yüksek lisans yaptı.

Brüksel’de ekonomi-politika doktorasını yaparken gazeteciliğe başladı.

Cumhuriyet, Dünya, Virgül, TimeOut, Huffington Post, Vocativ ve BBC gibi yerli ve yabancı medya kuruluşları için çalıştı. Bu süreçte İstanbul, Washington, Brüksel ve Londra’da yaşadı.

İlk romanı Gazetecinin Ölümü 2014 yılında, ikinci romanı Kara Muska 2016’da, üçüncü romanı Mantolu Kadın Kasım 2018’de yayımlandı.

İngiltere’nin seçkin derneği Polisiye Yazarlar Birliği’ne (CWA) 2016 yılında kabul edildi.

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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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Hulûsi Turgut

İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi’nin Maliye-Sosyal Siyaset Bölümü’nde tamamladı; aynı üniversitede, “Türkiye’de Bulvar Gazeteciliği” üzerine yüksek lisans yaptı. Gazetecilik mesleğine 1961 yılında, Kayseri’deki Erciyes Postası gazetesinde başladı. Akşam ve Güneş gazetelerinde Yazı İşleri Müdürü, Türk Haberler Ajansı’nda İç Haberler Editörü, Sabah gazetesinde araştırma yazarı, BRT TV’de Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, İstanbul Üniversitesi ile Kadir Has Üniversitesi’nin iletişim fakültelerinde öğretim görevlisi ve ABC Basın Ajansı’nda da Genel Müdür olarak görev yaptı. Hürriyet, Milliyet, Sabah, Akşam, Güneş, Günaydın, Tercüman ve Yeni Yüzyıl gazetelerinde, çok sayıda araştırma ve belgesel yazı dizisi yayımlandı.
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