Türker Ayyıldız
1972’de Yozgat’ta doğdu. Marmara Üniversitesi’nde İktisat okudu. Öyküleri çeşitli edebiyat dergilerinde yayımlandı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor.
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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.
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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.
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Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in the spring of 2016.
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Robinson is best known for her novels Housekeeping (1980) and Gilead (2004). Her novels are noted for their thematic depiction of both rural life and faith. The subjects of her essays have spanned numerous topics, including the relationship between religion and science, US history, nuclear pollution, John Calvin, and contemp -
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont (in the United States), during the summers, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.
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Jon Fosse
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.
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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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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.
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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 -
Walter Kempowski
Walter Kempowski was a German writer. He was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental Echolot ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War.
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Murathan Mungan
21 Nisan 1955 tarihinde İstanbul'da dünyaya geldi. Mardinli bir ailenin çocuğudur. Babası avukat İsmail Mungan, annesi Habibe Mungan'dır. İlk, orta ve lise yılları Mardin'de geçti; Mardin Lisesi'nden mezun oldu. Mardin eserlerinde sıkça kullandığı mekanlardan birisi oldu. Bu çevrenin taşıdığı farklı kültürel yapıyı, insan olgusunu eserlerine başarılı bir şekilde yansıttı. Yazar, 1972'de Ankara'ya yerleşti. Lisans ve yüksek lisansını Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Tiyatro Bölümü’nde tamamladıktan sonra başladığı doktora çalışmasını yarım bıraktı, Ankara Devlet Tiyatroları’nda altı yıl, İstanbul Şehir Tiyatroları’nda üç yıl dramaturg olarak çalıştı. Gazete ve dergilerdeki ilk yazılarını 1975’te yayımlayan Mungan; yazı hay
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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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Zaven Biberyan
1921'de İstanbul Kadıköy'de doğdu. Kadıköy Aramyan-Uncuyan ve Dibar Gırtaran (Sultanyan) Ermeni ilkokulları, Saint Joseph Lisesi ve İstanbul Ticari İlimler Akademisi'nde öğrenim gördü.
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1941'de Yirmi Sınıf (Kura) asker toplanırken, o da askere alındı ve Nafıa hizmetine verildi. Akhisar'da kendisi gibi Nafıa askeri olan Jamanak [Zaman] gazetesi yöneticilerinden Ara Koçunyan'la tanıştı. Üç buçuk yıl süren askerlik dönüşü Jamanak gazetesinde yayınlanan "Krisdoneutyan Vağhcanı" [Hıristiyanlığın Sonu] adlı yazı dizisi büyük gürültü kopardı, dizinin yayını durduruldu. Nor Lur [Yeni Haber] ve Nor Or [Yeni Gün] gazetelerinde, daha sonra da Jamanak gazetesi yayın kurulunda görev aldı. Sosyalist düşüncelerinden dolayı gelen baskılar sonucu gazeteden ay -
Marianne Fritz
Marianne Fritz (1948–2007) was an Austrian novelist. Her first book, The Weight of Things, marked the beginning of an ambitious cycle of novels with the overarching title of Festung, or “The Fortress,” comprising Das Kind der Gewalt und die Sterne der Romani, Dessen Sprache du nicht verstehst, and the gargantuan Naturgemäß, the third volume of which she was preparing at the time of her death.
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Hermann Hesse
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.
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Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.
In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great -
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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Barış Bıçakçı
Barış Bıçakçı 1966'da Adana'da doğdu. Hüseyin Kıyar ve Yavuz Sarıalioğlu ile birlikte, Ocak 1994 ve Ekim 1997 tarihlerinde iki şiir kitabı yayımladı. İlk romanı Herkes Herkesle Dostmuş Gibi (2000) yılında İletişim Yayınları tarafından yayımlandı. İletişim Yayınları'nca yayımlanan diğer kitapları: Herkes Herkesle Dostmuş Gibi (2000), Veciz Sözler (2002), Aramızdaki En Kısa Mesafe (2003), Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (2004), Baharda Yine Geliriz (2006), Bir Süre Yere Paralel Gittikten Sonra (2008), Sinek Isırıklarının Müellifi (2011), Seyrek Yağmur (2016).
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Nahid Sırrı Örik
Writer and translator (b. 22 May 1895, İstanbul – d. 18 January 1960). After he finished Beşiktaş Secondary School, he studied at Galatasaray High School but discontinued his education.
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He graduated from the Sun Education High School. He studied at Law School for some time (1913) and then educated himself.
He lived abroad for eight years in Tiflis, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Rome and Copenhagen (1915-28). He worked as a translator at the Ministry of National Education.
He translated and wrote columns for various newspapers and journals beginning with Cumhuriyet. He traveled around many cities in Anatolia.
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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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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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Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
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He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
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Mîna Urgan
Mîna Urgan, İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi’nden emekli oldu. Thomas Malory, Henry Fielding, Balzac, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene, William Golding, John Galsworthy ve Shakespeare’den çeviriler yaptı. Elizabeth Çağı Tiyatrosunda Soytarılar, Sir Thomas More ve Ütopya, Shakespeare üstüne iki ciltlik bir inceleme, Shakespeare ve Hamlet (1984) ile beş ciltlik İngiliz Edebiyatı Tarihi (1986-93) yanında, Virginia Woolf (YKY, 1995) ve D.H. Lawrence (YKY, 1997) incelemeleri yayımlandı. Bir Dinozorun Anıları’ndan (1998) sonra yazdığı Bir Dinozorun Gezileri de Yapı Kredi Yayınları arasından çıktı (1999). Ülkemizde “İngiliz edebiyatının duayeni” olan Prof. Dr. Mîna Urgan, 15 Haziran 2000’de 85 yaşında İstanbul’da öldü.
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Fatma Aliye Hanım
Fatma Aliye Topuz (Fatma Aliye Hanım) Türk edebiyatının ilk kadın romancısı olarak tanınır.
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Zafer Hanım'ın 1877 yılında yayımladığı Aşk-ı Vatan adlı bir roman mevcutsa da yazarın tek romanı olduğu için Zafer Hanım değil, beş roman yayımlayan Fatma Aliye Hanım ilk romancı ünvanını almıştı.
9 Ekim 1862'de İstanbul'da doğdu. Tarihçi Ahmed Cevdet Paşa ile Adviye Hanım'ın kızıdır. Kendisine özel bir eğitim verilmese de ağabeyi Ali Sedat Bey'in evde özel hocalardan aldığı dersleri dinlemesi sayesinde kendini geliştirdi. Fransızca merakının ortaya çıkması üzerine ders alarak bu dili çok iyi düzeyde öğrendi.
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Abdullah Ataşçı
1973 yılında Elazığ'ın Palu ilçesine bağlı Ekrek köyünde doğdu. İlkokul, ortaokul ve liseyi Elazığ'da okudu. Gazi Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesini bitirdi. Ankara'da yaşıyor. İlk kitabı Sığ Suyun Balıkları (2006) ve Vicdan Saatleri (2008) Doğan Kitap tarafından yayımlandı.
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Defne Suman
Defne Suman was born in Istanbul and grew up on Prinkipo Island. She gained a Masters in sociology from the Bosphorus University and then worked as a teacher in Thailand and Laos, where she studied Far Eastern philosophy and mystic disciplines. She later continued her studies in Oregon, USA and now lives in Athens with her husband. The Silence of Scheherazade was first published in Turkey and Greece in 2016 and is her English language debut.
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