İsmet Özel
İsmet Özel, şair ve yazar.
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.
1978 yılında kaleme aldığı Üç Mesele (Teknik, Medeniyet, Yabancılaşma) en önemli kitaplarından biridir. 2007 yıl
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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.
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أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي، هو فيلسوف وفيزيائي وقاضي أندلسي مسلم، ولد في وادي آش، وهي تبعد 55 كم عن غرناطة، ثم تعلم الطب في غرناطة وخدم حاكمها. توفي في 581 هـ بمراكش وحضر السلطان جنازته.
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كان ابن طفيل فيلسوفاً ومفكراً وقاضياً وطبيباً وفلكياً. يمثل ابن طفيل الأب الروحي للنزعة الطبعية في التربية عبر كتابه "حي بن يقظان"، والذي حاول فيها التوفيق الفلسفي بين المعرفة العقلية والمعرفة الدينية. درس على يد ابن باجة وخدم في بلاط أبو يعقوب يوسف حاكم الأندلس من سلالة الموحدين.
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Orhan Veli shunned everything old in order to be able to bring about a new 'taste', refusing to use syllable and aruz meters. He professed to regarding the rhyme primitive, literary rhetoric techniques such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole unnecessary. Set out "to do away with all tradition, everything that bygone lit -
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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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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 -
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
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Üsküdar Adliyesi Ceza Mahkemesi zabıt kâtipliği yaptı. Osmanlı Bankası, Devlet Deniz Yolları İşletmesi'nde çalıştı. İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Bölümü kitaplığında görevliyken yaşamını yitirdi.
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Turgut Uyar
Turgut Uyar (1927-1985) Served as an army officer from 1948 to 1958. One of the first poets to react against the simplicity propounded by the practitioners of the "First New" movement, Uyar used daring imagery and complicated figures of speech in his poetry. Major poetry collections: Dunyanin En Guzel Arabistani (The Most Beautiful Arabia of the World/1959), Tutunler Islak (The Tobacco Is Wet/1962 - winner of the Yeditepe Poetry Award), Kayayi Delen Incir (The Fig That Split the Rock/1981 - winner of the Necatigil Poetry Award).
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Dominique Simonnet
Dominique Simonnet est un écrivain journaliste et éditeur français, auteur d'essais et de romans, ainsi que d'ouvrages de vulgarisation des arts, des sciences et des idées, et, par ailleurs, producteur d’émissions de radio et de télévision, et chroniqueur de danse. Ses derniers essais, Le Guide des élections américaines (2012) et 11 septembre, le jour du chaos (2011) sont parus aux éditions Perrin, et son dernier roman, Délivrez-nous du corps (septembre 2013) aux éditions Plon.
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Jusqu'en 2007, il est rédacteur en chef à l'hebdomadaire L'Express, dirigeant notamment la rubrique « Grands entretiens », dans laquelle il dialogue avec diverses personnalités dans le monde.
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Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Türk şair, veteriner hekim, öğretmen, vaiz, hafız, Kur'an mütercimi ve siyasetçi.
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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. -
Oktay Rifat
10 Haziran 1914'de Trabzon'da doğdu. Babası, o doğduğu sırada Trabzon valisi olan şair ve dilbilimci Samih Rıfat, annesi Hasan Enver Paşa’nın kızı Münevver Hanım’dır. Pek çok sanatçı ve yazar içeren bir ailede yetişti. Büyük dedesi Macar Hurşid Bey, hem Türk hem batı müziği konusunda donanımlı bestekardı; dedesi Albay Hasan Rıfat Bey şiir ilgilenirdi. Amcası Ali Rıfat Bey değerli bir udî ve besteci, annesinin teyzesinin oğlu Ali Fuat Bey cumhuriyet devrinin ünlü asker ve siyaset adamı, teyzesi Celile Hanım bir ressam, teyzesi Celile Hanım’ın oğlu Nazım Hikmet ünlü bir şairdir.
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Ortaöğrenimini 1925-1932 yıllarında Ankara Erkek Lisesi'nde yaptı. Bu okulda ünlü şair Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’ın öğrencisi oldu, ilk şiirlerini kaleme aldı ve ileride bi