Kemal, Yasar

Kemal, Yasar
(1923- )
   Of Kurdish ethnic heritage, Yasar Kemal is one of modern Turkey's greatest living novelists. He is noted for his command of the language and lyrical description of rural Turkish life. His most famous work, Mehmet, My Hawk, is the story of a Robin Hood-like bandit in the Taurus Mountains. Kemal has written more than 35 other books, which have been translated into some 30 different languages, and he has won numerous prestigious awards. He also has been a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. On 30 June 2009, Turkey's Bosphorus University awarded him an honorary doctorate.
   In 1995, Kemal ran afoul of the Turkish authorities for his criticism of Turkey's policy toward its ethnic Kurdish population, and he was tried under Article 8 of the Antiterrorist Law. Due to international publicity, he only received a suspended sentence.

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  • Yasar Kemal — Yaşar Kemal (* 6. Oktober 1923 als Kemal Sadık Gökçeli im Dorf Hemite (heute Gökçedam) in der Provinz Osmaniye) ist einer der bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Romanciers der Türkei kurdischer Abstammung. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Herkunft, Kindheit und… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • Kemal — (as used in expressions) Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal Mustafa Kemal Kemal, Yasar Kemal Sadik Gogçeli …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Yaşar Kemal — (* 6. Oktober 1923 als Kemal Sadık Gökçeli im Dorf Hemite, heute Gökçedam, in der Provinz Osmaniye) ist einer der bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Romanciers der Türkei. Er ist kurdischer Abstammung. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Herkunft, Kindheit und… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Yasar Kemal — Yaşar Kemal Yachar Kemal (en turc Yaşar Kemal, de son vrai nom Kemal Sağdıkgöğceli) est un romancier et journaliste turc, d origine kurde, né en 1923 dans le village de Hemite près d Osmaniye en Turquie. Issu d une famille pauvre, il dut… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Yaşar Kemal —   [ja ʃɑr kɛ mɑl], türkischer Schriftsteller, eigentlich Kemal Sadɪk Gökçeli, * Gökçeli (Provinz Adana) 1923; beschäftigte sich in den 1940er Jahren mit folkloristischen Studien und war nach 1951 als Publizist in Istanbul tätig. Seit 1950 war… …   Universal-Lexikon

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