Rekin Teksoy (1928 – May 30, 2012) was a Turkish lawyer, author and translator.

Career

Teksoy taught courses in

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’s Communications Faculty on ''Art of Cinema'' and ''Cinema and Literature Relations'' for over twenty years. He served on the executive board of ''Turkish Cinematech Association''. He also published articles of film criticism in the 1960s and later became one of the founding members of ''Turkish Foundation of Cinema and Audiovisual Culture'' (TURSAK). In 1994, Teksoy began to prepare and present the weekly cinema and literature program for Turkish Radio and Television 2 ( TRT 2); the shows continued for 601 weeks. He was the chief editor of ''Arkin Cinema Encyclopedia'' and other publications. His play, "Rosa Luxemburg", was staged for two seasons at Ayna Theater - Dilek Turker in Istanbul’s Kucuk Sahne. He has translated novels, stories and plays from writers such as Machiavelli,

Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, ; ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosm ...

Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese ( ; ; 9 September 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time. Early ...

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Dino Buzzati Dino Buzzati-Traverso (; 14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for ''Corriere della Sera''. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel '' The Tartar St ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist ...

Curzio Malaparte Curzio Malaparte (; born Kurt Erich Suckert; 9 June 1898 – 19 July 1957) was an Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy due to his works '' Kaputt'' (1944) and '' The Skin'' (1949). The ...

Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and ...

Oriana Fallaci Oriana Fallaci (; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. A member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for h ...

Luigi Malerba Luigi Malerba (11 November 1927 – 8 May 2008), born Luigi Bonardi, was an Italian author known for his short stories, historical novels, and screenplays. He was a prominent figure in the Neoavanguardia movement and co-founded ''Gruppo 63'', a l ...

Dario Fo Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

and

Milan Kundera Milan Kundera ( ; ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship ...

into the

Turkish language Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languag ...

. He received ''The Avni Dilligil Award'' as the best translator for his translation of

Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (, also , ; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays ...

’s ''Arlecchino Servitore di due Padroni'' (Turkish: ''Iki Efendinin Usagi''). He was knighted as a chevalier by the Italian President for his unabridged translation of

Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio ( , ; ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was s ...

’s

Decameron ''The Decameron'' (; or ''Decamerone'' ), subtitled ''Prince Galehaut'' (Old ) and sometimes nicknamed ''l'Umana commedia'' ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's ''Comedy'' "''Divine''"), is a collection of ...

into Turkish. He was also awarded by the Italian Senate Committee of Senate Awards for the first in verse translation of

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...

’s

The Divine Comedy The ''Divine Comedy'' (, ) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest wor ...

into Turkish. ''Rekin Teksoy’s Turkish Cinema'', one of the first English language resources outlining the history of cinema in Turkey from the late Ottoman period to the present day, provides students and film enthusiasts outside the borders of Turkey a glimpse into that country’s film history.Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging, Turkish Cinema
/ref> This book is an accumulation of material previously found in ''Rekin Teksoy’s Turkish Cinema'' (Rekin Teksoy’un Turk Sinemasi), published by Oglak Yayinevi in Turkish in 2007. Domestically he is also well known for his comprehensive work on world film history entitled ''Rekin Teksoy’s Cinema History'' (Rekin Teksoy’un Sinema Tarihi), published in 2005 by Oglak Yayinevi.

Works

Books

*''Turkish Cinema'', (Translated by Martin Thomen, Ozde Celiktemel), Oglak Yayincilik, 2008. *''Rekin Teksoy’un Turk Sinemasi'', Oglak Yayincilik, 2007. *''Rekin Teksoy'un Sinema Tarihi'', Oglak Yayincilik, 2005. *''Rosa Luxemburg'', Nisan Yayinlari, 1996.

Translations

*K. Marx & F.Engels, ''Manifest der Kommünistischen Partei - Komunist Parti Manifestosu'', Oglak Yayincilik, 2005. *Dante Alighieri, ''Divine Comedy'' - ''Ilahi Komedya'', Oglak Yayincilik, 2003. *Giovanni Boccaccio, ''Decameron'', Oglak Yayincilik, 2000. *Niccolò Machiavelli,'' Il Principe'' -'' Prens'', Oglak Yayinlari, 1999. *Oriana Fallaci, ''Insciallah'' - ''Insallah'', Can Yayınları,1994. *Federico Fellini, ''8½'', ''Nisan Yayınları'', 1993. *Dino Buzzati, ''La Boutique del Mistero'' - ''Tanrıyı Goren Kopek'', Can Yayinlari, 1992. *Luigi Malerba, ''Il protagonista'' - ''Babafingo'', Can Yayinlari, 1992. *Italo Calvino, ''Palomar'', Can Yayinlari, 1991. *Dino Buzzati, ''La Boutique del Mistero'' - ''Tanrıyı Goren Kopek'', Can Yayinlari, 1992. *Pier Paolo Pasolini, ''Teorema'', Can Yayınları, 1992.

References

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