1956 yılında Kahramanmaraş’ın Pazarcık ilçesinin Karabıyıklı köyünde dünyaya gelen Hanefî Avcı, öğrenim yaşamına doğduğu köydeki Kara bıyıklı İlkokulunda başladı. Ortaokulu Gaziantep’teki Karşıyaka Or…
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Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A…
George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two si…
Ahmet Ümit was born in 1960 in the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. He moved to Istanbul in 1978 to attend university. In 1983 he both graduated from the Public Administration Faculty of Marmara …
4 Haziran 1915’te İstanbul-Şişli’de doğdu. İlk ve ortaöğrenimini Belçika’da yaptı. 1939’da Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi’ni bitirerek Klasik Filoloji Bölümünde asistan olarak gör…
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 Nati…
1 Eylül 1930 tarihinde Ankara'da dünyaya geldi. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'ni bitirdi. Bir süre avukatlık yaptı. Köln Üniversitesi Tiyatro Bilimi Enstitüsü'ne devam ettikten sonra Devlet Tiya…
İlber Ortaylı (born 21 May 1947), is a leading Turkish historian, professor of history at the Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara. Since 2005 he has been the head of…
Mîna Urgan, İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi’nden emekli oldu. Thomas Malory, Henry Fielding, Balzac, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene, William Golding, John Galsworthy ve Shakespeare’den çevirile…
MAHFİ EĞİLMEZ, İstanbul’da doğdu. A.Ü. Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi’nden ekonomi ve maliye lisansı, Gazi Üniversitesi’nden kamu maliyesi doktorası aldı. 1972 yılında Maliye Müfettişi olarak başladığı ka…
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