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  Joan Mellen

  Joan Mellen is the bestselling author of twenty books, including A Farewell to Justice, her biographical study of Jim Garrison s New Orleans investigation of the Kennedy assassination. She has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Baltimore Sun. Mellen is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.
  
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  Jack London

  John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
  
  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.
  
  His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and Wh

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  Ivo Andrić

  Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
  Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being r

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  Daron Acemoğlu

  Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005 he won the prestigious John Bates Clark medal, awarded to the best economist under 40.

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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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  Amin Maalouf

  Amin Maalouf (Arabic: أمين معلوف; alternate spelling Amin Maluf) is a Lebanese journalist and novelist. He writes and publishes primarily in French.
  
  Most of Maalouf's books have a historical setting, and like Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Maalouf mixes fascinating historical facts with fantasy and philosophical ideas. In an interview Maalouf has said that his role as a writer is to create "positive myths". Maalouf's works, written with the skill of a master storyteller, offer a sensitive view of the values and attitudes of different cultures in the Middle East, Africa and Mediterranean world.

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  Dino Buzzati

  Dino Buzzati Traverso (1906 – 1972) è stato uno scrittore, giornalista, pittore, drammaturgo, librettista, scenografo, costumista e poeta italiano.
  
  Dino Buzzati Traverso was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel Il deserto dei Tartari, translated into English as The Tartar Steppe.

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  Nawal El Saadawi

  Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry. For two years, she practiced as a medical doctor, both at the university and in her native Tahla.
  
  From 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked as Director General for Public Health Education for the Egyptian government. During this time, she also studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master of Public Health degree in 1966. Her first novel Memoirs of a Woman Doctor was published in Cairo in 1958. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the Egyptian government as a resu

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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.
  
  He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayabl

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  Sabahattin Ali

  Sabahattin Ali (February 25, 1907 – April 2, 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.
  
  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.
  
  While he was serving as a teacher in

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  Cal Newport

  Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on TV and radio.
  
  From his website: "I write about the intersection of digital technology and culture. I’m particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives."

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  Ivan Turgenev

  Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).
  
  These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
  
  Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and reli

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  İskender Pala

  İskender Pala (born 1958, in Turkey) is a Turkish Divan (Ottoman) Poetry Professor and author of best seller novels. He also used to write a column in the Turkish daily newspaper Zaman.
  
  İskender Pala graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Letters Turkish Language and Literature Department in 1979. He entered Turkish Navy as a lieutenant in 1982 and taught Turkish Literature in Naval Schools and Boğaziçi University. In 1987 he established Turkish Navy Museum Archives. He oversaw classification and restoration of many historic documents dated from the times of the Ottoman Empire. He published Encyclopedic Dictionary of Divan (Ottoman) Poetry and received Writers Union of Turkey Award in 1989. He was discharged from the Navy without any

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  Fakir Baykurt

  Asıl adı Tahir olan Fakir Baykurt 1929 yılında Burdur’da doğdu. 1948’de Gönen Köy Enstitüsü’nü bitirdikten sonra köy öğretmeni olarak çalışan yazar, 1955’te Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü’ndeki eğitimini tamamladıktan sonra Sivas, Hafik ve Şavşat’ta Türkçe öğretmenliği yaptı. Demokrat Parti yönetimi tarafından öğretmenlikten alınarak pasif bir göreve getirildi.
  
  1958’de Cumhuriyet gazetesinde yayımlanan ilk romanı Yılanların Öcü nedeniyle hakkında kovuşturma açıldı. 1960 yılındaki askeri müdahalenin ardından ilköğretim müfettişliğine getirildi.
  
  1962-63 yıllarında ABD Bloomington Indiana Üniversitesi’nde ders araçları konusunda uzmanlık eğitimi gören Baykurt, Türkiye Öğretmenler Sendikası’nın (TÖS) ve Türkiye Öğretmenler Dernekleri Milli Federasyonu’n

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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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  Ferit Edgü

  1936’da İstanbul’da doğdu. İstanbul Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi Resim Bölümü’nde başladığı öğrenimini Paris’te sürdürdü. 1976-1990 yılları arasında, kurucusu olduğu Ada Yayınları’nda, çağdaş Türk ve dünya yazarlarının, şairlerinin yapıtlarını yayınladı. Edebiyatın çeşitli alanlarında onlarca ürün verdi. "Bir Gemide" adlı kitabıyla 1979 Sait Faik Armağanı, "Ders Notları" ile 1979 Türk Dil Kurumu Ödülü, "Eylülün Gölgesinde Bir Yazdı" ile 1988 Sedat Simavi Edebiyat Ödülü’nü aldı. Abidin Dino, Yüksel Arslan, Bedri Rahmi, Eren Eyüboğlu, Füreya, Aliye Berger, Ergin İnan gibi sanatçılar üzerine yayınlanmış kitapları vardır.

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  Gündüz Vassaf

  Gündüz Vassaf (d. 1946, ABD), Türk yazar ve psikolog.
  
  Liseyi İstanbul Robert Koleji'nde tamamladıktan sonra 1968'de George Washington Üniversitesi'nde psikoloji eğitimi gördü. 1977'de Ankara Hacettepe Üniversitesi'nden doktorasını alan Vassaf, uzun bir süre Ankara Üniversitesi Mediko-Sosyal Merkezi'nde öğrencilere psikolojik danışmanlık yaptı. Uluslararası Psikologlar Konseyi yönetim kurulu üyeliğinde bulunan Gündüz Vassaf, 12 Eylül askeri darbesinden sonra öğretim üyeliği yaptığı Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nden istifa etti.
  
  O tarihten sonra Kassel, Bremen ve Marburg Üniversitelerinde öğretim üyeliği, Kanada'da McGill Üniversitesi Center for Developing Area Studies'te konuk akademisyen, Amsterdam'da Averoes Stichting'de klinik psikolog, Viyana'da

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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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  Fatma Aliye Hanım

  Fatma Aliye Topuz (Fatma Aliye Hanım) Türk edebiyatının ilk kadın romancısı olarak tanınır.
  
  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.
  
  Fatma Aliye Hanım, 17 yaşında iken 1877-78 Osmanlı Rus harbindeki Plevne Savunması ile ünlü Gazi Osman Paşa'nın yeğeni Kolağası Faik Bey ile evle

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  Aylin Balboa

  1980 yılında İzmit’te doğdu. Öğrencilik yıllarını Ankara’da geçirdi. Çeşitli dergilerde yazıları yayımlandı. Halen İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Balık adında bir köpeği var.

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