Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a wealthy yet declining bourgeois family; an experience he describes in passing in his novels The Black Book and Cevdet Bey and His Sons, as well as more thoroughly in his personal memoir Istanbul. H ...
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Tuna Kiremitci (b. February 1973, Eskisehir) is a contemporary Turkish writer. His first poems were published in the magazine Varlik during his Galatasaray High School years. His book entitled Ayabakanlar ("Moon Watchers") that won him the "Yasar Nabi ...
Yasar Kemall, who describes himself as a Turk of Kurdish descent, was born in Hemite (now Gökçedam), a hamlet in the province of Osmaniye in southern Turkey. His parents were from Van, who came into Çukurova during the First World War. Kemal had a dif ...