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  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.
  
  His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Gia

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  D.B.C. Pierre

  DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer currently residing in Ireland. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the "DBC" stands for "Dirty But Clean". "Pierre" was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name.
  
  Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little.
  
  He is the third Australian to be so honoured, although he has told the British press that he prefers to consider himself a Mexican.

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  Alain de Botton

  Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via www.alaindebotton.com
  
  He is a writer of essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
  
  His first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], minutely analysed the process of falling in and out of love. The style of the book was unusual, because it mixed elements of a novel together with reflections and analyses normally found in a piece of non-fiction. It's a book of which many readers are still fondest.
  
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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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  Annie Ernaux

  The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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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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  Oğuz Atay

  Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) was a pioneer of the modern novel in Turkey. His first novel, Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected), appeared 1971-72. Never reprinted in his lifetime and controversial among critics, it has become a best-seller since a new edition came out in 1984. It has been described as “probably the most eminent novel of twentieth-century Turkish literature”: this reference is due to a UNESCO survey, which goes on: “it poses an earnest challenge to even the most skilled translator with its kaleidoscope of colloquialisms and sheer size.” In fact one translation has so far been published, into Dutch: Het leven in stukken, translated by Hanneke van der Heijden and Margreet Dorleijn (Athenaeum-Polak & v Gennep, 2011). It appears also that

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  Latife Tekin

  Latife Tekin is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. She was born in 1957 in Kayseri, Turkey. She continued her education in Istanbul. In 1983, her famous novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (Dear Shameless Death) was published. The magic realism in the book was drawn from the Anatolian folklore and traditions. Latife Tekin's childhood in Kayseri, a multicultural city at a central point in Anatolia, influenced both her first book and the others in this aspect.
  
  

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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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  Erlend Loe

  Erlend Loe is a Norwegian novelist. He worked at a psychiatric clinic, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Loe now lives and works in Oslo where in 1998 he co-founded Screenwriters Oslo - an office community for screenwriters.
  
  In 1993 he debuted with the book Tatt av kvinnen, and a year later published a children's book, Fisken, about a forklift operator named Kurt. Loe has a distinctive style of writing which is often likened to naïve art. He often uses irony, exaggeration and humor.

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  Jules Verne

  Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
  
  This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
  
  Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
  
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  Sevgi Soysal

  Sevgi Soysal was born in Istanbul in 1936. She grew up in Ankara with her father, an architect-bureaucrat originally from Salonica, and her German mother. She studied archaeology in Ankara, continuing her education in that field as well as theater at Göttingen University.
  
  Soysal’s first volume of short stories, Tutkulu Perçem (Passionate Bangs), was published in 1962, the same year that Soysal began working for the Turkish national television and radio (TRT). She went on to write Tante Rosa, a novel of interconnected stories based upon the life and personality of her aunt, Rosel. Her novel addressing male-female relationships and the issue of marriage, Yürümek (Walking), was banned upon charges of obscenity. In 1974 Soysal won the prestigiou

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  Haldun Taner

  Haldun Taner, a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer.He was born on March 16, 1915 in Istanbul. After graduating from the Galatasaray High School in 1935, he studied politics and economy at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, until a serious health problem forced him to return to Turkey, where he graduated from the Faculty of German Literature and Linguistics in 1950. He also studied theatre and philosophy at the University of Vienna between 1955 and 1957 under the direction of Heinz Kindermann (1894–1985), an Austrian theater and literary scholar.
  
  As a well-disciplined writer accumulating a rich blend of culture, Taner wrote a great number of stories, generally humorous; essays, newspaper columns, travel writings and th

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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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  Yusuf Atılgan

  Yusuf Atılgan (27 June 1921, Manisa - 9 October 1989, İstanbul) was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) and Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel). He is one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel.
  
  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.
  
  Atılgan finished middle school in Manisa, then high school in Balıkesir. He graduated in Turkish language and literature from İstanbul University. He finished his thesis titled Tokatlı Kani: Sanat, şahsiyet ve psikoloji under supervision of Nihat Tarlan. Atılgan then began teaching literature at Maltepe Askeri Lise

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  Pınar Kür

  Yazar. Bursa'da doğdu. Tam adı Havva Pınar Kür. Yazar İsmet Kür'ün kızıdır. İlk ve orta okulu Ankara'da , liseyi New York'ta okudu. Üniversiteye New York'ta başladı ve İstanbul'da Robert Kolej'in yüksek kısmında tamamladı. Fransa'da Sorbonne Üniversitesinde 'Yirminci Yüzyıl Tiyatrosunda Gerçekçilik ve Yanılsama: Pirandello, O'neill ve Etkileri' teziyle doktorasını verdi. Ankara'da Devlet Tiyatrolarında dramaturg olarak çalıştı (1971-1973). Bilgi Üniversitesinde ders verdi. Gazeteci Can Kolukısa ile bir süre evli kaldı.
  Hikâyeleri 1971'den itibaren dergilerde yayınlanmaya başladı. Müstehcenlik yüzünden tenkide uğradı.
  
  

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  Alex Schulman

  Carl Magnus Alexander Schulman (born 17 February 1976 in Hemmesdynge) is a Swedish author, journalist, blogger and television and radio personality.
  

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  Mine Söğüt

  Mine Söğüt (1968, İstanbul), Türk gazeteci, yazar.
  
  Babası bir deniz subayı olan Mine Söğüt, ortaöğrenimini Kadıköy Kız Lisesi’inde tamamladığı 1985 yılında babasını kaybetti. Aynı yıl İstanbul Üniversitesi Latin Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünde girdi.
  
  Gazeteciliğe 1990 yılında Güneş Gazetesi’nde başladı, İnsan Hakları Servisi’nde muhabirlik yaptı. Güneş Gazetesi’nin kapanmasından sonra Tempo Dergisi ve Yeni Yüzyıl gazetesinde çalıştı.
  
  1993 yılında Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti’nin düzenlediği yarışmada, Haber dalında mansiyon aldı. 1996-2000 yılları arasında Haberci adlı televizyon belgeselinin metin yazarlığını yaptı. 1999-2001 yıllarında Öküz dergisinde yazdığı yazılarla tanındı. Profesyonel gazeteciliği bırakan Söğüt, 2001-2005 yılları arasında C

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  Sándor Márai

  Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
  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.
  He wrote very enthusiastically about the Vienn

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  Anton Chekhov

  Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
  
  Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
  
  "When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867

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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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  Seray Şahiner

  1984 yılında Bursa’da doğdu, İstanbul’da büyüdü. İlköğrenimini Oruçgazi İlköğretim Okulu’nda, ortaöğrenimini Pertevniyal Lisesi’nde tamamladı. 2007 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi, Gazetecilik Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. 2011’de Marmara Üniversitesi Radyo Televizyon ve Sinema Bölümü’nden, Sinema Anabilim Dalı’nda yüksek lisans derecesi aldı. 'Aylık Paldır Kültür Dergisi Hayvan’da ve Birgün Gazetesi’nde çalıştı. Uzun süre gitar ve resim dersi aldı, izcilik ve dağcılık yaptı. Dönemsel olarak, garsonluk, konfeksiyonda el işçiliği ve makinecilik yaptı. 2006 yılında Varlık Dergisi’nin düzenlediği Yaşar Nabi Nayır Gençlik Ödülleri’nde, "Gelin Başı" isimli öykü dosyası "Dikkate Değer" bulundu. 2007 yılında "Gelin Başı" isimli kitabı C

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  Melisa Kesmez

  MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yaptı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Keriman isimli bir kedisi var.

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  Omer Friedlander

  Omer Friedlander was born in Jerusalem in 1994 and grew up in Tel Aviv. His debut story collection, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, won the Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Wingate Prize. The book was longlisted for the Story Prize and chosen as a Sophie Brody Medal Honor Book.
  
  Omer earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, England, and an MFA from Boston University, where he was supported by the Saul Bellow Fellowship. His short stories won numerous awards, and have been published in the United States, Canada, France, and Israel.
  
  A Starworks Fellow in Fiction at New York University, he has earned fellowships from Bread Loaf and the Vermont Studio Center. He currently l

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