Mustafa Balel
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- Born
- ( 1945-09-01 ) 1 September 1945 (age 80) , Sivas , Turkey
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mustafa
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Place of birth
- Sivas
- Occupation
- children's writer
- Educated at
- University of Poitiers
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Image
- Mustafa Balel (2013).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1945-09-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Mustafa Balel (born 1 September 1945) is a Turkish short story writer and novelist.
Balel was born in Sivas. After he graduated from Ankara Gazi Institute of Education, Department of French philology (1968), he did his master's at the University of Poitiers in France (1971-1972). Returned to Turkey, he worked as a teacher at high schools in Ardahan (1968-1970), Sivas (1972-1975) and Istanbul, and at the Atatürk Education Institute (1978-1980). He was a member of publication committee of Larousse Encyclopedia (1986-1992); Axis Encyclopedia (1997-2001) and published a story journal Öykü (1975-1976, 8 issues).
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