1956'da Aydın'da doğdu. Liseyi Robert Kolej’de bitirdi. Şiir bursu alarak Floransa’ya gitti. Türkiye’ye dönerek birer yıl ODTÜ Elektronik ve Ekonomi bölümlerine devam etti. 1977’de İngiltere’ye gitti:…
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in…
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Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written w…
A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (19…
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
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John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC s…
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…
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…
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Johann Hari is an award-winning British journalist and playwright. He was a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post, and has won awards for his war reporting. His work has also appeared …
İlhan Berk was a leading contemporary Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry (termed, "İkinci Yeni"; "The second new generation") and was very influential a…
Auteur prolifique, Jean-Louis Fournier a toujours su mêler humour, culture et sincérité. Entre un frère polytechnicien et une soeur éducatrice spécialisée, il choisit la voie de l'humour et devient le…
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…
He graduated from the Political Sciences Faculty of Ankara University. He was the editor-in-chief of the Papirus literary magazine. Cemal Süreya is a notable member of the Second New Generation of Tur…
Byung-Chul Han, also spelled Pyŏng-ch'ŏl Han (born 1959 in Seoul), is a German author, cultural theorist, and Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) in Berlin, Germany.
Leylâ Erbil is one of the leading female contemporary writers of Turkey, author of four novels and three collections of short stories, a book of essays and a biographical text about one of the best wo…
Sevim Burak (İstanbul, 29 Haziran 1931-İstanbul, 30 Aralık 1983) Alman Lisesi’nin orta bölümünden sonra çalışmaya başladı. Mankenlik yaptı, kendi açtığı modaevini yönetti. İki kez evlenip ayrıldı; ilk…
Nurdan Gürbilek Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü'nü bitirdi ve aynı bölümde master yaptı. Akıntıya Karşı, Zemin, Defter ve Virgül dergilerinde yazdı. İlk kitabı Vitrinde Yaşamak…
Edip Cansever (1928, İstanbul 1986, a.y.) İstanbul Erkek Lisesi’ni bitirdi. Yüksek Ticaret Okulu’ndaki öğrenimini yarıda bırakarak babasının Kapalıçarşı’daki dükkânında ticarete başladı ve 1976’ya kad…
Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli (14 April 1914 – 14 November 1950) was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet. Aiming to fundament…
Yaşar Kemal, asıl adı Kemal Sadık Gökçeli. Van Gölü’ne yakın Ernis (bugün Ünseli) köyünden olan ailesinin Birinci Dünya Savaşı’ndaki Rus işgali yüzünden uzun bir göç süreci sonunda yerleştiği Osmaniye…
Güven Turan 1943’te Sinop, Gerze’de doğdu, ortaöğrenimini Samsun’da Maarif Koleji’nde tamamladı. Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü’nü bitirdi (1968).…
İzmir doğumlu (1970-23 Temmuz 2011). Liseyi İzmir'de tamamladı. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'ni bitirdi. İlk şiirleri Sombahar ve Ludingirra dergilerinde yayımlandı. İlk kitabı Grapon Kâğı…
