1945’te İstanbul’da doğdu. 1964’te Arnavutköy Amerikan Koleji’ni, 1968’de Robert Kolej’in Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü’nü bitirdi. 1978’de Harvard Üniversitesi’nden anadalı İngiliz Edebiyatı, yanda…
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John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t…
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Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 …
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1936’da İstanbul’da doğdu. İstanbul Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi Resim Bölümü’nde başladığı öğrenimini Paris’te sürdürdü. 1976-1990 yılları arasında, kurucusu olduğu Ada Yayınları’nda, çağdaş Türk ve düny…
Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary a…
1967'de İstanbul'da doğdu. Kabataş Erkek Lisesi'ni bitirdi. Yüksek öğrenimini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği bölümünde tamamladı (1989). Aynı üniversitenin Psikoloji Bölümü'nde…
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