Yiğit Bener
Yiğit Bener (d.1958, Brüksel), Türk yazar ve çevirmen.
Yiğit Bener, 1958 yılında Brüksel'de doğdu. Yazar Erhan Bener'in oğlu, Vüs'at O. Bener'in yeğenidir. Evli ve bir kızı var. İstanbul'da yaşıyor.
İlk ve ortaöğrenimini Paris ve Ankara'da tamamladıktan sonra, Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi'nde okudu. 12 Eylül 1980 darbesinden sonra son sınıf öğrencisiyken eğitimini yarım bıraktı, on yıl boyunca Brüksel ve Paris'te yaşadı. Çocuk bakıcılığı, dergi yöneticiliği, göçmen sorunları danışmanlığı, çevirmenlik gibi işlerde çalıştı. Halen yazarlığın yanı sıra profesyonel konferans tercümanı olarak çalışıyor. Meslek örgütleri TKTD ve AIIC'de yöneticilik yaptı. Bilkent Üniversitesi'nde Konferans Tercümanlığı Yüksek Lisans programında öğretim görevlis
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Ayfer Tunç
Erenköy Kız Lisesi'nin ardından İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi'nden mezun oldu. Üniversite yıllarında çeşitli edebiyat ve kültür dergilerine yazılar yazmaya başladı. Edebiyat üzerine ilk yazılarını 1983 yılından itibaren çeşitli dergilerde yayımladı. 1989 yılında gazeteciliğe başladı. Sokak dergisinde, Güneş ve Yeni Yüzyıl gazetelerinde çalıştı. 1989 yılında "Saklı" başlıklı öyküsüyle Cumhuriyet gazetesinin verdiği Yunus Nadi Öykü Ödülü'nü kazandı. 1999-2004 yılları arasında Yapı Kredi Yayınları'nda yayın yönetmeni olarak çalıştı. 2001 yılında yayımlanan Bir Maniniz Yoksa Annemler Size Gelecek başlıklı yapıtı, 2003 yılında altı Balkan ülkesinin katılımıyla düzenlenen Balkanika Ödülü'nü kazandı ve altı Balkan diline çevrilm
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Murat Gülsoy
1967'de İstanbul'da doğdu. Kabataş Erkek Lisesi'ni bitirdi. Yüksek öğrenimini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği bölümünde tamamladı (1989). Aynı üniversitenin Psikoloji Bölümü'nde “Face-Specific Evoked Brain Potentials”(İnsan yüzlerine ilişkin uyarılmış beyin potansiyelleri) başlıklı tezi ile yüksek lisans derecesi aldı. (1992). İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği Biyomedikal Mühendisliği programında doktora yaptı. Beyin cerrahisinde kullanılacak bir cerrahi lazer sistemi üzerinde tez yazarak doktorasını tamamladı.
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Öykü, roman, inceleme türlerinde eserler vermiştir. Eserleri Sait Faik Hikâye Armağanı (2001), Yunus Nadi Roman Ödülü (2004), Notre Dame de Sion ödülü (2013), Sedat Simavi Edebiyat Öd -
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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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Mathias Énard
Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmée-de-La-Rochefoucauld for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He has been awarded many prizes for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre.
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Compass, which garnered Énard the renowned Prix Goncourt in 2015, traces the intimate connection between Western humanities and art history, and Islamic philosophy and culture. In one sentence that's over 500 pages long, Zone tells of the recent European past as a cascade of consequences of wars and conflicts.
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Doğu Yücel
15 Nisan 1977'de İstanbul'da doğdu. 1997'de Gençlik Kitabevi Öykü Yarışması’nda ve 1999’da Nostromo Kısa Bilim Kurgu Hikaye Yarışması’nda başarı ödülleri kazandı. Bu hikayeleri de kapsayan "Düşler Kabuslar ve Gelecek Masalları" 2001'de yayımlandı. İstanbul Üniversitesi’nde Sinema TV yüksek lisansı yapan Yücel'in ikinci kitabı “Hayalet Kitap” 1 Kasım 2002’de Stüdyo İmge yayınlarından çıktı. "Okul" filminin (2004) senaryosunu yazdı. Filmi Taylan Biraderler yönetti. 2006'da Taylan Biraderler'in ikinci filmi "Küçük Kıyamet"in senaryosunu yazdı. Yücel'in "Varolmayanlar" isimli romanı 7 Eylül 2011'de Doğan Kitap'tan çıktı. 2012'de "Hayalet Kitap"ın 10.yıl özel baskısı yazarın gözden geçirdiği haliyle Doğan Kitap'tan yayımlandı. "Sanatçı Öyküler"
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Ahmet Tulgar
1959 yılında doğdu. Sankt Georg Avusturya Lisesi'ni bitirdikten sonra Viyana Üniversitesi'nde Siyaset Bilimi, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nde İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı okudu. 1987'de Sabah Dergi Grubu'nda başladığı gazeteciliğe çeşitli gazete, dergi ve TV kanallarında muhabir, yazar ve yönetici olarak devam etti.
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-Henüz Zaman Var, 2013 Roman
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Zeynep Kaçar
1972 yılında Lüleburgaz'da doğdu.
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1995'te MSM oyunculuk bölümü, 1999'da İstanbul Üniversitesi - Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü’nden mezun oldu.
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Hwang Bo-Reum
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대학에서 컴퓨터공학을 전공하고 LG전자에서 소프트웨어 개발자로 일했다. 몇 번의 입사와 퇴사를 반복하면서도 매일 읽고 쓰는 사람으로서의 정체성은 잃지 않고 있다. 지은 책으로 『매일 읽겠습니다』, 『난생처음 킥복싱』, 『이 정도 거리가 딱 좋다』가 있다. -
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-Henüz Zaman Var, 2013 Roman
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