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Kâmuran Şipal
Kâmuran Şipal (1926, Adana – 18 September 2019, Istanbul), was a Turkish novelist, story writer and translator. Şipal graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Letters, German Language Department. In the following years, he translated from German to Turkish, such German writers as Franz Kafka, Alfred Adler, Ingeborg Bachmann, Wolfgang Borchert, Heinrich Böll, Alfred Brauchle, Bertolt Brecht, Max Brod, Elias Canetti, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Hans Graber, Günter Grass, Carl Gustav Jung, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Musil, Bernhard Zeller, Hans Zulliger and Hermann Hesse. Şipal won the Turkish Language Association Story Contest in 1953. He received a Sait Faik Sait or SAIT may refer to: People * Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906–1954), Turkish writer * Talât Sait Halman (1931–2014), Turkish poet * Sait Idrizi (born 1990), Slovenian footballer * Mehmed Said Pasha (1838–1914), Ottoman statesman * Musta ... Story Award for his novel named ''Elbiseciler Çarş ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adana
Adana is a large city in southern Turkey. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the administrative seat of the Adana Province, Adana province, and has a population of 1 816 750 (Seyhan, Yuregir, Cukurova, Saricam), making it the largest city in the Mediterranean Region, Turkey, Mediterranean Region of Turkey. Adana lies in the heart of Cilicia, which some say, was once one of the most important regions of the Classical antiquity, classical world. Home to six million people, Cilicia is an important agricultural area, owing to the large fertile plain of Çukurova. Adana is a centre for regional trade, healthcare, and public and private services. Agriculture and logistics are important parts of the economy. The city is connected to Tarsus, Mersin, Tarsus and Mersin by TCDD Taşımacılık, TCDD train. The closest public airport is Çukurova International Airport. Etymology The name Adana (; ; ) has been used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Mann was a member of the Hanseaten (class), hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, ''Buddenbrooks''. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of Mann's six children – Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann – also became significant German writers. When Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler's rise to power, came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Turkish Short Story Writers
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People From Adana
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 Births
In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the last country to officially adopt the Gregorian Calendar, which ended the 344-year calendrical switch around the world that took place in October, 1582 by virtue of the Papal Bull made by Pope Gregory XIII. Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Ibn Saud is crowned ruler of the Kingdom of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne as Bảo Đại, the last monarch of the Nguyễn dynasty of the Kingdom of Vietnam. * January 16 – A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting. * January 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yapı Kredi Yayınları
Yapı Kredi Yayınları ( Turkish: ''Yapi Kredi Publications'' in English, abbreviated as YKY) is one of the biggest publishing houses in Turkey. Based in Istanbul Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ... and active since 1992, as of the end of 2013 it has published 4000 titlesYKannouncementof 4000 titles. in philosophy, literature, the arts, and children's books. It has printed more than 2 million copies in 2013. In January 2018, the publishing house released its 5000th book, titled ''Nâzım’ın Cep Defterlerinde Kavga, Aşk ve Şiir Notları (1937–1942)'', showcasing notes on conflict, love, and poetry found in Nâzım's pocket notebooks from 1937 to 1942. It is a member of the Turkish Publishers Association. Turkish Publishers AssociationYapı Kredi Publishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orhan Kemal Novel Award
Orhan Ghazi (; , also spelled Orkhan; died 1362) was the second sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1323/4 to 1362. He was born in Söğüt, as the son of Osman I. In the early stages of his reign, Orhan focused his energies on conquering most of northwestern Anatolia. The majority of these areas were under Byzantine Empire, Byzantine rule and he won his first battle at Battle of Pelekanon, Pelekanon against the list of Byzantine emperors, Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos. Orhan also occupied the lands of the Karasids of Balıkesir and the Ahis of Ankara. A series of civil wars surrounding the ascension of the nine-year-old Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos greatly benefited Orhan. In the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347, the regent John VI Kantakouzenos married his daughter Theodora Kantakouzene (wife of Orhan), Theodora to Orhan and employed Ottoman warriors against the rival forces of the Anna of Savoy, empress dowager, allowing them to loot Byzantine Thrace, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sait Faik Short Story Award
The Sait Faik Short Story Award is a prize given annually by the Sait Faik Museum to the best collection of short stories in Turkish. The award has been given annually since 1955 and was started by the mother of Sait Faik Abasıyanık Sait Faik Abasıyanık (18 November 1906 – 11 May 1954) was one of the greatest Turkish people, Turkish writers of short stories and poetry and considered an important literary figure of the 1940s. He created a brand new style in Turkish lit .... Selected winners of the Sait Faik Short Story Prize Footnotes References * * * {{cite web , last = Güler , first = Emrah , title = Literary giant Sait Faik Abasıyanık remembered , website = Hürriyet Daily News , date = January 14, 2013 , url = http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/literary-giant-sait-faik-abasiyanik-remembered.aspx?pageID=238&nID=38961&NewsCatID=386 , access-date = September 4, 2014 , archive-date = March 4, 2016 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/2016030402480 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language Association
The Turkish Language Association (, TDK) is the List of language regulators, regulatory body for the Turkish language, founded on 12 July 1932 by the initiative of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and headquartered in Ankara, Turkey. The Institution acts as the official authority on the language, contributes to linguistic research on Turkish and other Turkic languages, and is charged with publishing the official dictionary of the language, ''Güncel Türkçe Sözlük''. Origins A Language Council (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Dil Heyeti'') which was established in March 1926 following approval of a draft bill presented by Ministry of National Education (Turkey), Education Minister Mustafa Necati in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Turkish parliament. In 1928 it was tasked with the latinization of the Turkish alphabet. The Language Council would be put under the supervision of a Central Bureau, in which also Ahmet Cevat Emre, later the head of the Grammar and Syntax commission of the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss poet and novelist, and the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His interest in Eastern philosophy, Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped to shape his literary work. His best-known novels include ''Demian'', ''Steppenwolf (novel), Steppenwolf'', ''Siddhartha (novel), Siddhartha'', ''Narcissus and Goldmund'', and ''The Glass Bead Game'', each of which explores an individual's search for Authenticity (philosophy), authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality. Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw, a town in Germany's Northern Black Forest. His father was a Baltic Germans, Baltic German and his grandmother had Romands, French-Swiss roots. As a child, he shared a passion for poetry and music with his mother, and was well-read and cultured, due in part to the influence of his polyglot grandfather. As a youth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Zulliger
Hans Zulliger (February 21, 1893 in Mett/Mache, today part of Biel/Bienne, Canton of Bern – October 18, 1965 in Ittigen) was a Swiss teacher, child psychoanalyst and author. Life From 1912 until 1959, Zulliger was a primary school teacher in Ittigen, Switzerland. He is remembered for his pioneer work of applying psychoanalytical practices into the education of school children, mostly from rural, working-class and under-privileged environments. He was introduced to modern psychiatric thought by educator Ernst Schneider (1878-1957) of the ''Bern-Hofwil Teachers' Academy''. Zulliger enthusiastically studied the works of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, subsequently becoming an analysand to Swiss theologian and lay psychoanalyst Oskar Pfister. Later on, Freud became interested in Zulliger's work, and visited him twice in Switzerland. Zulliger had an intuitive understanding of children, as individuals, and also when they engaged in interactive group environments. He conducted resea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
