Şevket Pamuk
Şevket Pamuk, born in 1950, is an internationally recognized professor of economics and economic history.
Pamuk is also the older brother of Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk.
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Türkiye’nin yetiştirdiği önemli akademisyenlerden biri olan Marksist iktisatçı Korkut Boratav 1935'te Konya'da doğdu. 1959 yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'ni bitirdi. 1960 yılında tamamladığı Maliye Teorisi yüksek lisans eğitimi sonunda Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi'ne asistan olarak girdi. 1964'te, aynı fakültede, "iktisat doktorası"nı tamamladı. 1964-66'da Cambridge Üniversitesi'nde araştırmalar yaptı. 1972'de doçent oldu. 1974'te Birleşmiş Milletler Cenevre Ofisi'nde danışmanlık yaptı. 1980'de Ankara Üniversitesi Senato'sunca profesörlüğe yükseltildi. 1983'te Ankara Sıkıyönetim Komutanlığı'nca 1402 sayılı yasaya göre Üniversitedeki görevine son verildi. 1984-1986'da Zimbabwe Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği y
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Roberto Bolaño
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Bilge Karasu
Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) was born in Istanbul and became the pre-eminent Turkish modernist writer. Besides short stories and novels he was also a well-known translator. A graduate of the philosophy department of the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University, Mr. Karasu worked in the foreign broadcast department of Radio Ankara until a Rockefeller University scholarship made it possible for him to continue his studies in Europe. After returning to Turkey, he went to work at Hacettepe University, where he lectured in philosophy. In 1963, Mr. Karasu won the Turkish Language Institute’s Translation Award with Olen Adam, for a translation of D. H. Lawrence’s The Man Who Died. By that time, he had begun to experiment with new forms of expression
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Tanıl Bora
1963 Ankara doğumlu. İstanbul Erkek Lisesi’ni ve Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi’ni bitirdi. 1984-88 arasında haftalık haber dergisi Yeni Gündem’de gazetecilik yaptı. 1988’den beri İletişim Yayınları’nda araştırma-inceleme dizisi editörüdür. O zamandan beri kitap çevirmenliğiyle de meşguldür. 1993’ten 2014’e kadar üç aylık sosyal bilimler dergisi Toplum&Bilim dergisinin yayın yönetmenliğini yaptı. 1989’dan beri düzenli yazdığı aylık sosyalist kültür dergisi Birikim’in 2012’de yayın koordinatörlüğünü, 2016’da yayın yönetmenliğini üstlendi.
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Ağırlıklı çalışma alanları, Türkiye’de siyasal düşünceler, özellikle sağ ideoloji ve milliyetçiliktir. Bu konularda yayımlanmış kitapları: Devlet Ocak Dergâh - 1980’lerde Ülkücü Hareket (Kema -
Halil İnalcık
He was born in Istanbul to a Crimean Tatar family, which left Crimea for Constantinople in 1905. His birthday is unknown but İnalcık chose 26 May 1916 for his birthday. He attended Balıkesir Teacher Training School, and then Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of History where he graduated from in 1940. He completed his PhD in 1943 in the same department. His PhD thesis was on the Bulgarian question in the late Ottoman Empire.
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He entered the same school as an assistant, then he became assistant professor in 1946 and after his return from lecturing in the University of London for a while, he became a professor in the same department in 1952. He lectured in various universities in the United States as a gu -
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
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Mithat Cemal’in yayımlanan ilk şiiri, Çırçır Suyu’nda başlığını taşır. 1901 yılında Malumat Dergisi’nde çıkmıştır. Sırat-ı_Müstakim Dergisi ve Tercüman-ı Hakikat gazetesi’nde yayımlanan şiirleri ile adını duyurdu. Tek şiir kitabı Türkün Sehnamesi'nde 82 şiiri yer aldı. Şiirlerinde aruzu ustaca kullandı. Ağır bir dille sahip olan şair, dilini zamanla sadeleştirmiştir. Vatan ve millet sevgisi temalı epik ve lirik şiirleri yazdı. Hiciv türünde de şiirler yazdı, aşk temasını hemen hemen hiç işlemedi. Hiçbir -
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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, (d. 27 Mart 1889, Kahire, Mısır – ö. 3 Aralık 1974, Ankara). Türk romancı, gazeteci, şair, diplomat.
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Roman, öykü ve makaleleri ile Türk toplumunun Tanzimat’tan bu yana geçirdiği değişiklikleri anlatmış bir yazardır. Asıl ününü romanları ile sağlayan yazarın en ünlü romanları Nur Baba, Kiralık Konak ve Yaban'dır. Edebiyat yaşamının başında Fecr-i Ati edebiyat topluluğunun kurucu üyeleri arasında yer almış; daha sonra ferdiyetçi düşüncelerden uzaklaşarak toplumcu edebiyatı kabul etmiş bir yazar olarak değerlendirilir.
Milli Mücadele yıllarında ve sonrasında etkin bir siyasal yaşam sürmüştür. Milli Mücadeleden itibaren Atatürk’ün yakın arkadaşları arasında yer almış; TBMM II., IV., XII. dönemlerde milletvekiliği yapmış -
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Rutger Bregman
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Melisa Kesmez
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Şermin Yaşar
See also: Şermin Çarkacı
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"Oyuncu Anne" lakabıyla bilinen ve yazdığı ebeveynlik kitaplarıyla büyük bir ilgi kazanan Şermin Çarkacı, 2017 yılında medeni durum değişikliği sebebiyle babasının soyadı olan Yaşar soyadını kullanmaya başlamıştır.
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Zülfü Livaneli
Müzisyen, Yazar, Yönetmen, Politikacı.
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Tam adı Ömer Zülfü Livaneli’dir. 1946 yılında Konya-Ilgın’da doğan Livaneli, yazarlık kimliğinin yanında saygın bir müzisyendir. Müziği ile birçok ulusal ve uluslararası ödül almış ve eserleri John Baez, Maria Farandouri gibi sanatçılar tarafından yorumlanmıştır. Kültür, sanat ve politika alanında Türkiye’nin önemli isimlerinden birisi olan sanatçı, sanat yaşamı boyunca 300’e yakın besteye ve 30 film müziğine imzasını attı.
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Hwang Bo-Reum
Hwang Bo-reum studied Computer Science and worked as a software engineer. She wrote several essay collections: I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is her first novel, which has sold over 150,000 copies in Korea and been sold into 9 territories. Before its release as a paperback, the novel was initially published as an e-book after winning an open contest co-organised by Korean content-publishing platform ‘Brunch’.
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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. -