Nikiforos Vrettakos
Nikiforos Vrettakos was a Greek writer and poet. Nikephoros Vrettakos was born in the village of Kokees, near Sparta, and published his first collection of poems, Under Shadows and Lights, in 1929, at the age of seventeen. That same year he moved to Athens to attend university, but left after a year to take a series of jobs as a clerk in various businesses. In 1937 he began a thirty year career in the Greek Civil Service, also seeing combat service in the Greco-Italian War during this period. In 1967 he responded to the takeover of Greece by a military dictatorship by going into self-imposed exile in Switzerland and Italy, where he remained until returning to Greece in 1974. He also wrote a poem about Kostas Georgakis, the student who set h
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” -
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Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
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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.
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Füruzan İlk kitabı Parasız Yatılı’yla 1972 Sait Faik Hikâye Armağanı ’nı kazandı. İlk kitaplarında kötü yola düşmüş kadın ve kızların, çöken burjuva ailelerinin, yoksulluk ve yalnızlıkla boğuşan kadın ve çocukların, yeni ortamlarda bunalan ve yurt özlemi çeken göçmenlerin dramlarına sevecenlikle yaklaştı; kişileri derinlemesine inceledi, anlatımını ayrıntılarla besledi. 12 Mart dönemini anlattığı ilk romanı Kırk Yedi’liler ile 1975 TDK Roman Ödülü’nü kazandı. 1975’te bir sanatçılar programıyla (D.A.A.D.) çağrıldığı Batı Berlin ’de bir yıl kalarak işçiler ve s -
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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 - 24 January 1962) was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. He was also a member of the Turkish parliament (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey) between 1942 and 1946.
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Tanpınar was born in Istanbul on 23 June 1901. His father was a judge, Hüseyin Fikri Efendi. Hüseyin Fikri Efendi was Georgian from Maçahel. Tanpınar's mother died at Mosul, when Tanpınar was thirteen. Because his father's vocation required frequent relocation, Tanpınar continued his education in several different cities, including Istanbul, Sinop, Siirt, Kirkuk, and Antalya. After quitting veterinary college, he resumed his educational career at the Faculty of Literature at Istanbul University, wh -
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Ortaokulu son sınıf öğrencisiyken terk ettikten sonra ırgat kâtipliği, ırgatbaşılık, öğretmen vekilliği, kütüphane memurluğu, traktör sürücülüğü, çeltik tarlalarında kontrolörlük yaptı. 1940’lı yılların başlarında Pertev Naili Boratav, Abidin Dino ve Arif Dino gibi sol eğilimli sanatçı ve yazarlarla ilişki kurdu; 17 yaşındayken siyasi nedenlerle ilk tutukluluk deneyimini yaşadı. 1943’te bir folklor derlemesi olan ilk kitabı Ağıtlar’ı yayım -
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Yusuf Atılgan
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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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Margarita Liberaki
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Leylâ Erbil
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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Onat Kutlar was born in Alanya, Turkey in 1936. He was the grandson of Arif Pasha, an Ottoman governor of the Taif district and the son of Ali Riza Bey, a penal judge of the young Turkish Republic and later a farmer, and Meliha Hanim.
He grew up in the city of Gaziantep. He studied law at Istanbul University and philosophy in Paris. His book, Ishak (1959), composed of nine short stories, most of which are written from the point of view of a child and are often surrealistic and mystical was the recipient of the 1960 "Turkish Language Association Short -
Pascal Quignard
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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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Parents reared O'Hara in Grafton, Massachusetts. O'Hara served in the south Pacific and Japan as a sonar man on the destroyer United States Ship Nicholas during World War II.
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Cusk is the Whitbread Award–winning author of two memoirs, including The Last Supper, and seven novels, including Arlington Park, Saving Agnes, The Temporary, The Country Life, and The Lucky Ones.
She has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes: her most recent novel, Outline (2014), was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmith's Prize and the Bailey's prize, and longlisted for Canada's Giller Prize. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'
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People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
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Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. Morrison earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. Morrison became the first black female editor for fiction a -
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.
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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 -
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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Alexandros Papadiamantis
Alexandros Papadiamantis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης) was an influential Greek novelist and short-story writer.
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He was born in Greece, on the island of Skiathos, in the western part of the Aegean Sea. The island would figure prominently in his work. His father was a priest. He moved to Athens as a young man to complete his high school studies, and enrolled in the philosophy faculty of Athens University, but never completed his studies.
He returned to his native island in later life, and died there. He supported himself by writing throughout his adult life, anything from journalism and short stories to several serialized novels. From a certain point onwards he had become very popular, and newspapers and magazines vied for his writings, of -
Ahmet Hâşim
Ahmet Haşim was an influential Turkish poet of the early 20th century. He was born in Baghdad, probably in the year 1887. In 1906, having graduated from the Mekteb-i Sultanî (now Galatasaray High School), he began to work as a public servant in different state offices. After the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, Hâşim worked as a teacher of aesthetics in the Academy of Fine Arts and as a French language teacher at Istanbul University. For many years, he also wrote essays for the newspapers.
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Hâşim's early poetry was very much in the Parnassian and Decadent vein of the poets Tevfik Fikret and Cenab Şahâbeddin. Hâşim's later poetry, however -collected in Göl Saatleri and Piyâle- evidences more of a French Symbolist influence, particularly -
Georgios Vizyinos
Georgios Vizyinos (Greek: Γεώργιος Βιζυηνός) was a Greek prose writer and poet, one of the most significant figures of Greek literature. He was born Georgios Syrmas in Vizyi, Eastern Thrace, on March 8, 1849. He was sent at a young age by his parents to Constantinople to become a clothesmaker but instead chose to study first religion and later literature.
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In 1873, he published his first collection of poems "Ποιητικά πρωτόλεια". The following year, Vizyinos published his epic poem "Codrus". His third collection was originally entitled "Ares-Mares-Koukounares" but later re-titled "Breezes of the Bosphorus". All three works received awards for poetry.
In 1883, Vizyinos started writing in prose. In a span of merely fifteen months (1883 - 1884) he -
Mahmut Makal
Mahmut Makal (d. 1930, Gülağaç, Aksaray - ), 1950'de "Köy Edebiyatı" akımını başlatan Türk yazar, şair ve öğretmen.
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Makal, 1930 yılında Aksaray ilinin Gülağaç ilçesi Demirci Kasabası'nde doğdu. 1943 yılında İvriz Köy Enstitüsü'ne başladı. Edebiyata şiirle başladı. İlk olarak 1945'te "Türk'e Doğru" ve 1946'da "Köy Enstitüsü" dergilerinde şiirler yazdı. Varlık Dergisi'ndeki Köy Notları ile dikkat çekti. 1947'de İvriz Köy Enstitüsünü bitirdekten sonra 6 yıl köy öğretmenliği yaptı. 1950 yılında öğretmenlik yıllarındaki gözlemlerini Bizim Köy adlı bir kitapta yayınlayarak büyük yankı uyandırdı. Köy Edebiyatı akımının başlangıcı olarak anılan bu kitap nedeni ile tutuklanıp bir süre cezaevinde kaldı. Öğrenmenlikten sonra 1953 yılında Ankara Gazi En