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  Fethiye Çetin

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

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  Marshall G.S. Hodgson

  Marshall Goodwin Simms Hodgson was an Islamic studies academic and a world historian at the University of Chicago. He was chairman of the interdisciplinary Committee on Social Thought in Chicago.

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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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  Boris Pasternak

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born in Moscow to talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy's works, his mother a well-known concert pianist. Though his parents were both Jewish, they became Christianized, first as Russian Orthodox and later as Tolstoyan Christians. Pasternak's education began in a German Gymnasium in Moscow and was continued at the University of Moscow. Under the influence of the composer Scriabin, Pasternak took up the study of musical composition for six years from 1904 to 1910. By 1912 he had renounced music as his calling in life and went to the University of Marburg, Germany, to study philosophy. After four months there and a trip to Italy, he returned to Russia and decided to dedicate himself

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  Yu Hua

  Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people’s mouths the whole day." Writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible.[citation needed] He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. One of the distinctive characteristics of his work is his penchant for detailed descriptions of brutal violence.
  
  Yu Hua has written four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His most important novels are Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and To Liv

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  Peyami Safa

  1899 yılında İstanbul’da doğar. Servet-i Fünun dönemi şairlerinden İsmail Safa'nın oğludur. Sivas'a sürgüne gönderilen babasının orada ölmesi üzerine 1901 yılında iki yaşında yetim kalmış, bu yüzden "Yetim-i Safa" adıyla anılmıştır. Babasız büyümenin acılarının yanı sıra, sekiz dokuz yaşlarında yakalandığı bir kemik hastalığı dolayısıyla çocukluk ve ilk gençlik yılları hastane koridorlarında geçmiştir. Bilahare bu günlerini eserlerine soğukkanlı bir ciddiyetle yansıtacaktır.
  
  Hastalık ve savaşın yol açtığı maddî sıkıntılar dolayısıyla öğrenimini sürdüremez, babasının arkadaşı olan Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem Marif Nazırlığına veda edince onu Galatasaray Lisesi'nde okutma vaadini yerine getiremez. Peyami hayatını kazanmak ve annesine bakmak için V

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  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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  Ömer Seyfettin

  Ömer Seyfettin was born in 1884 in Gönen. He wrote under various aliases such as Ayas, Camsâp, C. Nazmi, C. Nizami, Ç. Kemal, F. Nezihi, Feridun Perviz, Kâf-ı Farsî, Kaygusuz, M. Enver, M. Enver Perviz, Ömer Perviz, Süheyl Feridun, Tarhan, and Tekin. Just like his father, Ömer Seyfettin was educated at the Kuleli Military Academy, and it was in this school that his love for literature bloomed. Some poems that he wrote during this period appeared in the publications Kadın and Bahçe. Following the declaration of the second constitutional monarchy, he was assigned to Thessalonica, and witnessed the awakening of nationalistic feelings among Balkan tribes.
  
  In 1911 Omer Seyfettin cofounded a literary and cultural magazine entitled Genç Kalemler (Y

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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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  Orhan Kemal

  Orhan Kemal, (Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü) writer of short stories and novels was born in Adana in 1914 and died in Sofia in 1970. His father, Abdülkadir Kemali, was an MP from Kastamonu during the first term parliament of the Turkish Republic. Abdülkadir Kemali, a lawyer by profession, established The Ahali Party which was dissolved causing its founder to have to flee to Syria. In order to accompany his father, Orhan Kemal had to miss his final year of secondary school. Orhan Kemal stayed in Syria for a year, returning to Adana in 1932. He worked as a laborer, weaver and clerk in cotton gin mills. During his military service he was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for his political opinions. Bursa prison became a turning point in his life and art

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  Adalet Ağaoğlu

  Adalet Ağaoğlu, a writer born in Nallıhan in 1929, graduated from Ankara University's Faculty of Language and History-Geography, Department of French Language and Literature in 1950. Subsequently, she joined Ankara Radio in 1951, where she worked as a dramaturg, radio theater director, and program specialist following the establishment of TRT. He departed from his post in 1970, having served as the head of the Radio Department. Ağaoğlu's foray into poetry commenced with the publication of her work in the 1948 and 1949 issues of Kaynak magazine. She subsequently made her theatrical debut with the play "Bir Piyes Yazalım" (Let's Write a Play), which was staged in Ankara in 1953 and co-authored with a colleague. The initial work of fiction by

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  Ferenc Molnár

  Ferenc Molnár (Americanized name: Franz Molnar) was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. During the World War II he emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi persecution of Hungarian Jews.

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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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  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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  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")
  
  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

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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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  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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  Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar

  Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar was a Turkish writer and politician.
  
  Gürpınar was the son of a family close to the Ottoman court, born in Istanbul. Having lost his mother at an early age, he was sent to Crete where his father was an Ottoman civil servant, however he was soon sent back to Istanbul, where he was brought up by his aunts and grandmothers in Istanbul.
  
  Gürpınar started writing fiction at an early age. He became a civil servant, then a writer and journalist. He later served as a member of parliament in the early years of the Turkish Republic between 1935 and 1943.
  
  
  
  

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  Robert Seethaler

  Robert Seethaler is an Austrian living in Berlin and is the author of four previous novels. A Whole Life is his first work to be translated into English and is already a German bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies. The book has been translated from its original German by Charlotte Collins.

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  Selçuk Altun

  Selçuk Altun (born 1950) is a Turkish writer, publisher and retired banking executive.
  
  Born in Artvin, Turkey in 1950, he graduated from the Management Department of Boğaziçi University. He began work in the finance sector in 1974 and was chairman of Yapi Kredi Bank and executive board director of the YKY (Yapı Kredi Publications), where he amassed a personal library of 9,000 volumes and published works by Louise Glück and John Ashbery, before he retired in 2004 to pursue his full timewriting career.
  
  “My goal was to write a book by the age of 50,” he says. “Before that, I knew I needed to read, so I read some 4,000 books before I sat down to write. That, more than anything, gave me the confidence I needed.” His first novel Yalnızlık Gittiğin

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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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  Marie Aubert

  Marie Grønborg Aubert er født i 1979 og bosatt i Oslo. Kan jeg bli med deg hjem er hennes debutbok. For åpningsnovellen i denne samlingen vant Marie Aubert novellekonkurransen Litteratur på Blå arrangerte i samarbeid med Vinduet våren 2013.

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  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Elizabeth O’Connor lives in Birmingham. Her short stories have appeared in The White Review and Granta, and she was the 2020 winner of the White Review Short Story Prize. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Birmingham, specialising in the modernist writer H.D. and her writing of coastal landscapes.
  
  Her debut novel, WHALE FALL, was published in 2024 by Picador in the UK and Pantheon in the US and will be published in eleven other territories. It was chosen as one of the Observer's ten best debut novels of the year.

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  Gürsel Korat

  Gürsel Korat, 1960’ta doğdu. Çocukluğu ve ilkgençliği Kayseri’de geçti. Yüksek öğrenimini Ankara Üniversitesi’nde tamamladı. Çeşitli gazete ve dergilerde yazılar yayımladı. Bazı film projelerinde senarist olarak yer aldı, çeşitli üniversitelerde dersler verdi.

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