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A.I.Bezzerides, full name Albert Isaac , was born in Samsun, Ottoman Empire in 1908. He was born in a Greek-American family. For this reason, his family immigrated to America before he was two. Bezzerides was an author. His first publish was in 1935 called Passage Into Eternity, in an issue of Story Magazine. The most well-known work of him is his script Kiss Me Deadly. The film based on this script brought an important affect on many other directors. In the time when he was in the University of California, Bezzerides began write short stories as a student since he still thought he had to improve himself.
Abidin Dino
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Dino was born in an art family in Istanbul in 1913. For this reason, he started drawing and painting at a young age. Dino's secondary education was at Robert College of Istanbul, which was an American high school. However, He dropped the school to focus on painting, drawing and writing. In 1993, he became the member of "Group D", which was a young innovative painters consist of six teenagers. During the time in "Group D", Dino got a chances to held several exhibitions of his and teams' work. In 1941, Dino got a chance to go to south eastern Anatolia and these years until 1945 were artistically very productive for Dino. After 1951, Dino was allowed to leave Turkey. Therefore he went to Rome, Italy and other countries to see the world and improve himself.
Adnan Oktar
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Adnan Oktar is also known as Harun Yahya. He was born in Ankara, 1956 in Turkey. He grew up in the city until he finished his high school education. He work as an author and he is a Sunni Muslim. In between 1980 to 2000, Oktar successfully built his own community. The followers of the community was mainly from the region around the Sea of Marmara. Because the anarchy, terror and other unstable situations in 1990s, Oktar was unable to continue studying and thus started working when he was still at school. Therefore, at the time he left school, he put all his energy into his books. In the last two decateds, Oktar was involved in a number of leagal cases. And in 2010, he was selected as one of the top fifty of The 5000 Most Influential Muslims in the world.
Hayati Çitaklar
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Hayati Citaklar was born in Tekirdag, Turkey in 1986. He is very talent, since he is a Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Actor and Editor. He studied in Istanbul University State Conservatory Theatre Department to learn professional skill and knowledge about being a performer during 2008 to 2011. Also, he started publishing poems, short stories and other literary outputs. The work of that time also include his film reviews in magazines and newspapers. In 2010, he decided to be a full-time writer, thus he left acting and directing jobs. From that, the began his carreer as a playwright with Yildiz Kenter, who is a famous Turkish actress and theatre professor.
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http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-authors-from-turkey/reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._I._Bezzerides
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abidin_Dino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Oktar#cite_note-WallStreetJ-12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayati_Citaklar
I noticed that the people you chose were all male. Is this a reflection of Turkey, in that the population of famous authors and such is mostly men? I know that women basically live in a different world from the men in a lot of Middle Eastern countries. I’m also wondering what kind of work that these authors produce. Is it all nonfiction types of pieces? This brings up the question of what kind of literature is allowed to be produced in Turkey as well. I think that it is interesting to think that literature can be censored. In a society where one can read about things like robots falling in love or the state of the political economy, it is hard to see that people are told what they can write in other countries. Whatever the reason, political or religious, it is something that we are not used to. For me, a great portion of what we have covered in class so far has been eye-opening to say the least. I have learned a lot about the Middle East that I had not really cared to learn before. Regardless of my previous standings, I am glad I have been given the opportunity to explore the culture of places like Turkey, and it is something I believe more people should concern themselves with.
ReplyDeleteRe: Josh's comment - there are some famous female authors in Turkey - notably Elif Shafak (who was a teacher at U of A for a few years). She had to have a body guard when returning to Turkey from Tucson because she wrote about the Armenian genocide of 1915 in her novel "The Bastard of Istanbul" - and also had to face court charges for "offending Turkishness" http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/29/fiction.features1
ReplyDeleteRe: Abidin Dino - Yifei, from his name I suspect he is not of Turkish ethnicity. Do you know what his ethnic background consists of? I'm just curious.
Aha - I was sure he was not of Turkish descent "Dino, son of Rasih Dino, was of Albanian descend from Preveza, modern Greece" http://anatoliahistory.com/2011/05/31/biography-of-abidin-dino/
ReplyDeleteWell, this is hurt. Anyway since he was born in Turkey, I bet at least he had a Turkish nationality. =_=
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