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Yaşar Kemal
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Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)
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Yaşar Kemal, born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli in Gökçedam, was a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and poet of Kurdish ethnicity. Writing in Turkish, his career spanned from 1943 to 2015. He is the author of notable works including *Memed, My Hawk*, *Ağrıdağı efsanesi*, *Arbābhā-yi Āqchāsāz*, *Yüzlerinde yeryüzü*, *Ağıtlar*, and *Çizgilerle deniz küstü*.
Kemal received several awards, including the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, the Catalonia International Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, and the Stig Dagerman Prize. He died of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome due to natural causes in Istanbul on February 28, 2015. He is buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 2015
- Works
- 283
Top works
- Ağrıdağı efsanesi
- Arbābhā-yi Āqchāsāz
- Yüzlerinde yeryüzü
- Ağıtlar
- Çizgilerle deniz küstü
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Key facts
- Born
- Kemal Sadık Gökçeli , ( 1923-10-06 ) 6 October 1923, Gökçedam , Osmaniye , Turkey
- Died
- 28 February 2015 (2015-02-28) (aged 91), Istanbul , Turkey
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Period
- 1943–2002
- Notable works
- Ağıtlar ("Ballads"; debut) İnce Memed ("Memed, My Hawk") Teneke ("The Drumming-Out") Ince Memed II ("They Burn the Thistles")
- Notable awards
- Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger , 1979 , Prix mondial Cino Del Duca , 1982 , Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur de France , 1984 , Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels , 1997 , Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur de France , 2011
- Spouses
- Thilda Serrero ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1952 ; died 2001 ) Ayşe Semiha Baban ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2002 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Official name
- Kemal Sadık Gökçeli
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Place of birth
- Gökçedam
- Place of death
- Istanbul
- Occupation
- translator
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Native language
- Turkish
- Image
- Yılmaz Büyükerşen wax Museum (Yaşar Kemal).jpg
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- ethnic group
- Kurds
- date of birth
- 1922-10-06
- date of death
- 2015-02-28
- Commons category
- Yaşar Kemal
- birth name
- Kemal Sadık
- name in native language
- Yaşar Kemal
- place of burial
- Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
- cause of death
- multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
- start of work period
- 1943-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
- end of work period
- 2015-00-00
- writing language
- Turkish
- described at URL
- edebiyat.k12.org.tr/author/25ba7087-9b63-4e58-86f4-1a7d3c50a08b
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Encyclopedic overview
Yaşar Kemal ( Turkish pronunciation: [ˈjaʃaɾ ceˈmal]; born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent, who wrote in Turkish and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk.
An outspoken intellectual, he often did not hesitate to speak about sensitive issues, especially those concerning the oppression of the Kurdish people. He was tried in 1995 under anti-terror laws for an article he wrote for Der Spiegel highlighting the Turkish Army's destruction of Kurdish villages during the Turkish–Kurdish conflict. He was released but later received a suspended 20-month jail sentence for another article he wrote criticising racism in Turkey, especially against the Kurds.
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