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Yaşar Kemal
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Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)
Yaşar Kemal was a Turkish-Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015) who became one of Turkey's most celebrated authors, known for novels that explored the lives and struggles of rural and working-class people. He is remembered for using his writing to advocate for social justice and human rights, making him an important cultural and political figure in modern Turkish literature.
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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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Film & TV
Writing
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 38
- Total plays
- 317
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ilastik: interactive machine learning for (bio)image analysis
· 2019 · cited 3,337x
- A pathology atlas of the human cancer transcriptome
· 2017 · cited 2,902x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)<sup>1</sup>
· 2021 · cited 2,380x
- A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks
· 2005 · cited 2,343x
- Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research
· 2017 · cited 2,215x
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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
- Official name
- Kemal Sadık Gökçeli
- Image
- Yılmaz Büyükerşen wax Museum (Yaşar Kemal).jpg
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- 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
- start of work period
- 1943-00-00
- end of work period
- 2015-00-00
- described at URL
- edebiyat.k12.org.tr/author/25ba7087-9b63-4e58-86f4-1a7d3c50a08b
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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.