:Yaşar Kemal

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Yaşar Kemal was born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli to Sadık and Nigâr on 6 October 1923 in Hemite (now Gökçedam),{{Cite web |last=Barchard |first=David |date=2015-03-01 |title=Yasar Kemal obituary |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/01/yasar-kemal |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/28/yasar-kemal-celebrated-turkish-novelist-dies-at-91|title=Yasar Kemal, celebrated Turkish novelist, dead at 91|website=TheGuardian.com|date=28 February 2015}} a Turkmen{{cite web |last1=Çelik |first1=Mehmed Mazlum |title=Yaşar Kemal: Bir kez bile "Kürt'sün sen" demediler |url=https://www.indyturk.com/node/322961/k%C3%BClt%C3%BCr/ya%C5%9Far-kemal-bir-kez-bile-k%C3%BCrts%C3%BCn-sen-demediler |website=Independent Türkçe |access-date=16 July 2022}} hamlet in the province of Osmaniye in southern Turkey. He was born into the only Kurdish family in the village{{cite news |last=Mirhanoglu |first=Fidan |date=7 March 2015 |title=Yaşar Kemal Kürtçe Düşünüp Türkçe Yazdı |work=Bianet |url=http://m.bianet.org/biamag/yasam/162814-yasar-kemal-kurtce-dusunup-turkce-yazdi}}{{cite news|title=Yaşar Kemal: 80 yıldır 'Bu adamlar niçin dağlardadırlar' diye düşünmedik!|url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/kultur/yasar-kemal-80-yildir-bu-adamlar-nicin-daglardadirlar-diye-dusunmedik-1303622/}}{{cite book|last1=Jones|first1=Derek|title=Censorship: A World Encyclopedia|date=December 2001|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136798641|page=2474|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDqsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA2474 |language=en}} but didn't face discrimination despite his ethnic difference. Kemal had a difficult childhood, and his family had to flee from Van province to Diyarbakır province. From there, they were deported to Adana province.{{Cite web|title=Young Turk social engineering : mass violence and the nation state in eastern Turkey, 1913- 1950|url=https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/867135/65687_13.pdf|last=Üngör|first=Umut|website=University of Amsterdam|page=239|access-date=9 April 2020}} He lost his right eye in a knife accident while his father was slaughtering a sheep for Eid al-Adha. When he was five years old he witnessed his father being stabbed to death by his adoptive son Yusuf while praying in a mosque. These traumatic experiences left Kemal with a speech impediment, which lasted until he was twelve years old. At nine, Kemal began school in a neighbouring village; he continued his formal education in Kadirli in Osmaniye province.

Kemal was a locally noted bard even before he began school but was unappreciated by his widowed mother until he composed an elegy on the death of one of her eight brothers, all of whom were bandits.{{cite book | last1 = Kemal | first1 = Yaşar |last2 = Bosquet | first2 = Alain | title = Yaşar Kemal on his life and art | publisher = Syracuse University Press | location = Syracuse, N.Y | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780815605515 |oclc = 1063383842}} He became interested in writing as a means to record his work after talking to an itinerant peddler, who was doing his accounts. His village paid his way to university in Istanbul.

He worked for a while for rich farmers as a labourer in the Çukurova cotton fields, ostensibly guarding river water against poor farmers' unauthorised use for irrigation. However, he actually taught the poor farmers how to steal the water undetected, by taking it at night. Later he worked as a letter-writer, then as a journalist, and finally as a novelist. The Turkish police confiscated his first two novels. In 1950, Kemal was imprisoned for alleged communist activities.{{Cite web |date=March 2015 |title=Yasar Kemal obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/01/yasar-kemal |website=TheGuardian.com}} He visited Akdamar Island in 1951, where he saw the beginning of the planned demolition of the island's Holy Cross Church. Using his contacts, he helped stop the demolition (the church was restored by the Turkish government in 2005).{{Cite web|url=http://asbarez.com/86018/the-mass-at-akhtamar-and-whats-next/|title=The Mass at Akhtamar, and What's Next|date=1 October 2010|website=Asbarez.com|language=en-US|access-date=6 February 2020}}

He then moved to Istanbul to work for the Cumhuriyet newspaper, where he adopted his pen name.

In 1962, Kemal joined the Workers Party of Turkey (TİP) and "served as one of its leaders until quitting after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968".{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/world/europe/yasar-kemal-master-turkish-novelist-and-strident-political-critic-is-dead.html|title=Yasar Kemal, Master Turkish Novelist and Strident Political Critic, Is Dead|last=Kinzer|first=Stephen|date=28 February 2015|work=The New York Times|access-date=15 December 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} In 1967, Kemal established the Marxist magazine Ant together with Dogan Özgüden and {{Interlanguage link|Fethi Naci|lt=Fethi Naci|tr}}.{{Cite book |last=Landau |first=Jacob M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DgTeCwAAQBAJ&dq=Ant+and+Yasar+kemal&pg=PA70 |title=Radical Politics in Modern Turkey |date=2016-03-31 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-24105-8 |pages=64–65 |language=en |author-link=Jacob M. Landau}} The magazine published articles about Engels, Marx, Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara.Landau, Jacob M. (2016), p.68 In the aftermath of the military coup in 1971, the magazine was closed during the crackdown on left-wing politicians. Because of the spate of political assassinations during the 1976–1980 political violence in Turkey, Kemal moved to Sweden for a time. He was often arrested for his political activities. In 1995, he was prosecuted for making separatist propaganda after writing an article for Index on Censorship, because of his support for Kurdish dissidents. He was sentenced to 20 months and received a suspended sentence in March 1996.{{Cite web|title=Turkish author Yasar Kemal convicted|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/03/07/Turkish-author-Yasar-Kemal-convicted/5721826174800/|access-date=5 October 2020|website=UPI|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Refugees|first=United Nations High Commissioner for|title=Refworld {{!}} Attacks on the Press in 1996 - Turkey|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/47c5651c16.html|access-date=5 October 2020|website=Refworld|language=en}} In December 2000, he was involved in negotiations over the hunger strikes against the F-Type prisons.{{cite web| url = http://bianet.org/english/print/25537-death-fasts-107-died-one-still-fasting| title = English :: Death Fasts: 107 Died, One still Fasting}}

On 14 January 2015, Kemal was hospitalised at Istanbul University's Çapa Medical Faculty, due to respiratory insufficiency. During the afternoon of 28 February 2015, he died in the intensive care unit, where he had been admitted for multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, Following a religious funeral service held at Teşvikiye Mosque, attended by former Turkish president Abdullah Gül, political party leaders, high-ranking officials and an enormous assembly of mourners, he was buried on 2 March 2015 beside his first wife Thilda's grave in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery. Kemal was survived by his wife Ayşe Semiha Baban and his adoptive son, visual artist Ahmet Güneştekin.

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In 1943 Kemal published his first book Ağıtlar ("Ballads"), a compilation of folkloric themes. This book brought to light many long-forgotten rhymes and ballads, which he had begun to collect at the age of sixteen. He penned his first tale Pis Hikaye ("The Dirty Story") in 1944 while serving in the military in Kayseri. His stories Bebek ("The Baby"), Dükkancı ("The Shopkeeper") and Memet ile Memet ("Memet and Memet") were published in 1950. Then he published a book of short stories Sarı Sıcak ("Yellow Heat") in 1952. His books initially focused on the lives, sufferings and toil of the people of the Çukurova plain. Kemal used the legends and stories of Anatolia extensively as the basis for his works.

In 1955 he received international acclaim with the publication of Memed, My Hawk ({{langx|tr|İnce Memed}}). In this book, Kemal criticised the fabric of society via a protagonist who flees to the mountains as a result of the oppression of the ağas. Kemal won nineteen literary prizes over his lifetime, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 by Dag Strömbäck and Per Wästberg.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=16795|title=Nomination Archive - Yasar Kemal|website=NobelPrize.org|date=March 2024|access-date=14 March 2024}} The novel was adapted into a 1984 film of the same name, starring Peter Ustinov.

His 1955 novel Teneke was adapted into a theatrical play, which ran for almost a year in Gothenburg, in Sweden, the country in which he lived for about two years in the late 1970s.{{cite news

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In 1952, Yaşar Kemal married Thilda Serrero,{{cite encyclopedia |year=2004 |title=KEMAL, Yashar |encyclopedia=International Who's Who of Authors and Writers |publisher=Routledge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&q=thilda+serrero+1952&pg=PA290 |editor=Elizabeth Sleeman |page=290 |isbn=1-85743-179-0 |author=Taylor & Francis Group}} a member of a prominent Sephardi Jewish family in Istanbul. Her grandfather, Jak Mandil Pasha, was the chief physician of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II.{{cite news |last=Uzun |first=Mehmed |date=22 January 2001 |title=Thilda Kemal: The Graceful Voice of an Eternal Ballad |work=Turkish Daily News |url=http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/archives.php?id=21877 |url-status=dead |access-date=11 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523032254/http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/archives.php?id=21877 |archive-date=23 May 2006 |df=dmy-all}} She translated seventeen of her husband's works into English.{{cite news |date=19 January 2001 |title=Thilda Kemal, wife and translator of novelist Yasar Kemal, dies |work=Turkish Daily News |url=http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/archives.php?id=21514}} {{dead link|date=August 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} [http://tdnarchives.blogspot.com/2001/01/thilda-kemal-wife-and-translator-of.html Alt URL] In 2001 Thilda predeceased Yaşar, dying, aged 78, from pulmonary complications in an Istanbul hospital. She was buried in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery. Thilda was also survived by her son Raşit Göğçel and a grandchild.

Yaşar Kemal remarried on 1 August 2002. His second spouse was Ayşe Semiha Baban, a lecturer in public relations at Istanbul Bilgi University in Istanbul who had been educated at the American University of Beirut, Boğaziçi University and Harvard University.{{cite news |last=Kayar |first=Ayda |date=11 August 2002 |title=Yaşar Kemal evlendi |language=tr |work=Hürriyet |url=http://webarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/2002/08/11/164909.asp |access-date=11 July 2008}}

Stories

• Sarı Sıcak ("Yellow Heat") (1952).Büyük Larousse, vol. 24, p. 12448, Milliyet, "Yaşar Kemal"

Novels

• İnce Memed (Memed, My Hawk) (1955)
• Teneke (The Drumming-Out) (1955)
• Orta Direk (The Wind from the Plain) (1960)
• Yer Demir Gök Bakır (Iron Earth, Copper Sky) (1963)
• Ölmez Otu (The Undying Grass) (1968)
• Ince Memed II (They Burn the Thistles) (1969)
• Akçasazın Ağaları/Demirciler Çarşısı Cinayeti (The Agas of Akchasaz Trilogy/Murder in the Ironsmiths Market) (1974)
• Akçasazın Ağaları/Yusufcuk Yusuf (The Agas of Akchasaz Trilogy/Yusuf, Little Yusuf) (1975)
• Yılanı Öldürseler (To Crush the Serpent) (1976)Özkırımlı, Atilla; Baraz, Turhan (1993). Çağdaş Türk edebiyatı, Anadolu University, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BqqecOVd4l8C&dq=y%C4%B1lan%C4%B1+%C3%B6ld%C3%BCrseler+ya%C5%9Far+kemal&pg=PA135 105].
• Al Gözüm Seyreyle Salih (The Saga of a Seagull) (1976)
• Allahın Askerleri (God's Soldiers) (1978)
• Kuşlar da Gitti (The Birds Have Also Gone: Long Stories) (1978)
• Deniz Küstü (The Sea-Crossed Fisherman) (1978)
• Hüyükteki Nar Ağacı (The Pomegranate on the Knoll) (1982)
• Yağmurcuk Kuşu/Kimsecik I (Kimsecik I – Little Nobody I (1980); also published as "Salman the Solitary" (1997)France, P., The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), [https://books.google.com/books?id=pmNoS2dndKsC&pg=PA624 p. 624].
• Kale Kapısı/Kimsecik II (Kimsecik II – Little Nobody II)(1985)
• Kanın Sesi/Kimsecik III (Kimsecik III – Little Nobody III) (1991)Çiftlikçi, Ramazan (1997). Yaşar Kemal: yazar, eser, üslup, Turkish Historical Society, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5CxkAAAAMAAJ&q=kan%C4%B1n+sesi+ya%C5%9Far+kemal p. 415]: "KANIN SESİ: Dizinin son cildi KS, İM III ve IV'ün araya girmesi üzerine 1989'da tamamlanmış, aynı yıl Güneş gazetesinde tefrika edildikten sonra 1991 de kitap biçiminde yayımlanmıştır."
• Fırat Suyu Kan Akıyor Baksana (Look, the Euphrates is Flowing with Blood) (1997)
• Karıncanın Su İçtiği (Ant Drinking Water) (2002){{cite web|last1=İnce|first1=Özdemir|title=Mutluluğun resmi de yapılır romanı da yazılır|url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/ek_haber.php?ek=ktp&haberno=1167|publisher=Radikal|access-date=3 March 2015|language=tr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402114021/http://www.radikal.com.tr/ek_haber.php?ek=ktp&haberno=1167|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}
• Tanyeri Horozları (The Cocks of Dawn) (2002)

Epic novels

• Üç Anadolu Efsanesi (Three Anatolian Legends) (1967)
• Ağrıdağı Efsanesi (The Legend of Mount Ararat) (1970) – the base of the opera Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi 1971
• Binboğalar Efsanesi (The Legend of the Thousand Bulls) (1971)
• Çakırcalı Efe* (The Life Stories of the Famous Bandit Çakircali) (1972){{cite web|title=Yaşar Kemal hayatını kaybetti|date=28 February 2015 |url=http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/turkiye/223915/Yasar_Kemal_hayatini_kaybetti.html|publisher=Cumhuriyet|access-date=3 March 2015|language=tr}}

Reportages

• Yanan Ormanlarda 50 Gün (Fifty Days in the Burning Forests) (1955)
• Çukurova Yana Yana (While Çukurova Burns) (1955)
• Peribacaları (The Fairy Chimneys) (1957)
• Bu Diyar Baştan Başa (Collected reportages) (1971)Secular State and Religious Society: Two Forces in Play in Turkey, Palgrave Macmillan, [https://books.google.com/books?id=KRDHAAAAQBAJ&dq=%22bu+diyar+ba%C5%9Ftan+ba%C5%9Fa%22&pg=PA204 204].
• Bir Bulut Kaynıyor (Collected reportages) (1974)

Experimental works

• Ağıtlar (Ballads) (1943)
• Taş Çatlasa (At Most) (1961)
• Baldaki Tuz (The Salt in the Honey) (1959–74 newspaper articles)
• Gökyüzü Mavi Kaldı (The Sky remained Blue) (collection of folk literature in collaboration with S. Eyüboğlu)
• Ağacın Çürüğü (The Rotting Tree) (Articles and Speeches) (1980)
• Yayımlanmamış 10 Ağıt (10 Unpublished Ballads) (1985)
• Sarı Defterdekiler (Contents of the Yellow Notebook) (Collected Folkloric works) (1997)
• Ustadır Arı (The Expert Bee) (1995)
• Zulmün Artsın (Increase Your Oppression) (1995)

Children's books

• Filler Sultanı ile Kırmızı Sakallı Topal Karınca (The Sultan of the Elephants and the Red-Bearded Lame Ant) (1977)

• "Seven Days in the World's Largest Farm" reportage series, Journalist's Association Prize, 1955Altınkaynak, Hikmet (2007). Türk edebiyatında yazarlar ve şairler sözlüğü, Doğan Kitap, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q18LAQAAMAAJ&q=varl%C4%B1k+%C3%B6d%C3%BCl%C3%BC+ya%C5%9Far+kemal p. 736]
• Varlik Prize for Ince Memed ("Memed, My Hawk"), 1956
• Ilhan Iskender Award for the play adapted from his book of the same name, Teneke ("The Drumming-Out"), 1966
• The International Nancy Theatre Festival – First Prize for Uzun Dere ("Long Brook"), 1966 -Theater adaptation from roman Iron Earth, Copper Sky.[http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/13/905/11574.pdf Köy Seyirlik Oyunları, Seyirlik Uygulamalarıyla 51 Yıllık Bir Amatör Topluluk: Ankara Deneme Sahnesi ve Uygulamalarından İki Örnek: Bozkır Dirliği Ve Gerçek Kavga Nurhan Tekerek]
• Madarli Novel Award for Demirciler Çarşısı ("Murder in the Ironsmith's Market"), 1974
• Choix du Syndicat des Critiques Littéraires pour le meilleur roman etranger (Eté/Automne 1977) pour Terre de Fer, Ciel de Cuivre ("Yer Demir, Gök Bakır")
• Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger 1978 pour L'Herbe qui ne meurt pas (Ölmez Otu); Paris, Janvier 1979.
• Prix mondial Cino Del Duca decerné pour contributions a l'humanisme moderne; Paris, Octobre 1982.
• The Sedat Simavi Foundation Award for Literature; Istanbul, Turkey, 1985.
• Premi Internacional Catalunya. Catalonia (Spain), 1996
• Lillian Hellman/Dashiell Hammett Award for Courage in Response to Repression, Human Rights Watch, USA, 1996.Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 1997: Yasar Kemal, Buchhändler-Vereinigung, [https://books.google.com/books?id=MegZAQAAIAAJ&q=human+rights+watch+ya%C5%9Far+kemal+prize p. 63].
• Stig Dagerman Prize ({{langx|sv|Stig Dagermanpriset}}), Sweden, 1997.
• Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, Frankfurt, Germany, 1997.
• International Nonino Prize for his collected works, Italy, 1997
• Bordeaux, Prix Ecureuit de Littérature Etrangère, 1998
• Z. Homer Poetry Award, 2003
• Savanos Prize (Thessaloniki-Greece), 2003
• Turkish Publishers' Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003
• Presidential Cultural and Artistic Grand Prize, 2008{{cite news |url=http://www.milliyet.com.tr/Siyaset/SonDakika.aspx?aType=SonDakika&Kategori=siyaset&KategoriID=&ArticleID=1024766&Date=04.12.2008&b=Yasar%20Kemal%20torende%20yurumekte%20zorlandi |access-date=4 December 2008 |title=Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kültür ve Sanat Büyük Ödülleri dağıtıldı |number=Siyaset

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• The Bjørnson Prize ({{langx|no|Bjørnsonprisen}}), Norway, 2013.

• Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur de France; Paris, 1984.
• Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, 1989.
• Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur de France; Paris, 2011.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnnturk.com/2011/kultur.sanat/kitap/12/18/yasar.kemale.buyuk.nisan/640954.0/index.html |newspaper=CNN Türk |title=Yaşar Kemal'e büyük "nişan" |date=18 December 2011 |language=tr |access-date=18 December 2011 }}
• Krikor Naregatsi Medal of Armenia, 2013.{{cite news|title=Turkish writer Yaşar Kemal gets Armenia's Krikor Naregatsi medal|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nid=53835|newspaper=Hurriyet|date=4 September 2013}}

• Doctor Honoris Causa, Strasbourg University, France, 1991.Çiftlikçi 1997, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5CxkAAAAMAAJ&q=ya%C5%9Far+kemal+strasbourg+doktora p. 29]
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey, 1992.
• Honorary Doctorate, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002{{cite web|title=Uluslararası Yaşar Kemal Sempozyumu|url=http://arsiv.ntv.com.tr/news/152902.asp|publisher=NTV|access-date=3 March 2015|language=tr}}
• Honorary Doctorate, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey, 2009 {{cite news|url=http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/id/25007751/ |access-date=8 October 2009 |title=Yaşar Kemal: Umutsuzluk umudu yaratır |work=ntvmsnbc.com |date=7 October 2009 |language=tr |agency=Anadolu Ajansı }}
• Honorary Doctorate, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009{{cite web|title=Umutsuzluktan umut üreten edebiyat çınarı Yaşar Kemal'i sonsuz yolculuğuna uğurluyoruz...|url=http://haberler.boun.edu.tr/tr/haber/umutsuzluktan-umut-ureten-edebiyat-cinari-yasar-kemali-sonsuz-yolculuguna-ugurluyoruz|publisher=Boğaziçi University|access-date=3 March 2015|language=tr}}
• Honorary Doctorate, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014{{cite web|title=Yaşar Kemal'e fahri doktora|url=http://www.aa.com.tr/tr/kultur-sanat/419705--yasar-kemale-fahri-doktora|publisher=Anadolu Agency|access-date=3 March 2015|language=tr}}

• [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/world/europe/yasar-kemal-master-turkish-novelist-and-strident-political-critic-is-dead.html Obituary – New York Times]

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