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…
Rodney William Whitaker was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved bestseller status, and publi…
Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and playwright widely regarded as a key figure in the development of literary naturalism. His work profoundly influenced both literature and soc…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film. His books have been published in over four dozen languages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times,…
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…
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…
Özdemir Asaf Cumhuriyet dönemi Türk şairlerdendir. 11 Haziran 1923 tarihinde Ankara'da doğdu. Asıl adı Halit Özdemir Arun'dur. Babası Mehmet Asaf Şura-ı Devlet'in kurucularındandır. Babasının öldüğü yı…
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…
Turgut Uyar (1927-1985) Served as an army officer from 1948 to 1958. One of the first poets to react against the simplicity propounded by the practitioners of the "First New" movement, Uyar used darin…
Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's …
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…
26 Şubat 1951’de Çarşamba’da doğdu. Galatasaray ve Çarşamba liselerinde okudu; DGSA Mimarlık Bölümü’ne girdi. 1968’den sonra Yeni Ufuklar ve Soyut dergilerinde öykü ve şiirleri çıktı. 1971’de Grup Oyu…
Türk yazar. Özellikle Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri ve Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk olmak üzere az sayıda kitabıyla tanınır. Yazar Demir Özlü ile yazar ve çevirmen Sezer Duru'nun kardeşidir.
He was born in Sinop, Ottoman Empire in 1909. Having completed his primary education in Sinop, he moved to Ankara and graduated from Ankara High School. He then went to Istanbul for a university degre…
Марина Цветаева Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow. Her father, Ivan Tsvetaev, was a professor of art history and the founder of the Museum of Fine Arts. Her mother Mariya, née Meyn, was a …
27 Mart 1953'te Elazığ'da doğdu. Diyarbakır Eğitim Enstitüsü Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü (1975) ile Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Güzel Sanatlar Bölümünü bitirdi (1977). 1975 yılından itibare…
Among Iranian writers who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century.
Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης) was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Priz…
