Oğuz Atay

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Oğuz Atay (born October 12, 1934 in İnebolu , † December 13, 1977 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish writer .

Life

Atay's grave

Oğuz Atay's father was a judge, his mother a teacher in a provincial town in northern Turkey. He attended high school in Ankara until 1951 and after completing his military service studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul . After graduating in 1957, he opened a construction company that failed. In 1960 he found a job at the Technical University and was made an assistant professor there in 1970.

In 1972 Atay's first novel Die Haltlosen ("Tutunamayanlar") appeared, followed by Dangerous Games ("Tehlikeli Oyunlar") a year later . For “Tutunamayanlar” he received a literature award from the Turkish radio TRT in 1970 , even before it was published. Nevertheless, the novel only became a bestseller in Turkey in a new edition in 1984 after the author's death . The text is reluctant to translate it into other languages ​​and Atay's other novels have not yet been translated either. The biographical novel Bir Bilim Adamının Romanı about Mustafa Inan is the first translation of a major work into German.

Fonts

  • Topoğrafya. İ.DMMA Akşam İnşaat Bölümü Örgütü, İstanbul 1970, (A textbook of topography ).
  • The unstable. From the Turkish by Johannes Neuner. binooki, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-943562-55-2 ( Tutunamayanlar. Roman. Sinan Yayınevi, İstanbul 1972).
  • The mathematician. (Novel). Translated from the Turkish by Monika Carbe. Afterword by Gürsel Aytaç. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-293-10016-9 ( Bir bilim adamının romanı. Mustafa İnan. Bilgi Yayınevi, Ankara et al. 1975).
  • Waiting for fear. 8 stories. From the Turkish by Recai Hallaç . binooki, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943562-00-2 ( Korkuyu Beklerken. May Yayınları, İstanbul 1975).
  • Oyunlarla Yaşayanlar. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi oyuncuları, İstanbul 1985, (play).
  • Günlük. İletişim, İstanbul 1987, (diary).
  • Eylembilim. İletişim, İstanbul 1998, ISBN 975-470-699-9 (not completed).
  • The track tellers - a dream. In: Beatrix Caner (editor and translator): Everything blue, everything green in this world. Turkish stories (= dtv. 13698). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-13698-3 , pp. 7-21.

literature

  • Tatjana Seyppel: The intellectual at Oğuz Atay. Depicted in the novel "The Unstoppable" (= Mîzân. Vol. 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-447-03190-5 .
  • Cahit Arf : My friend Mustafa Inan. (tr), in the Turkish edition: Oğuz Atay: Bir bilim adamının romanı. Mustafa Inan. Bilgi Yayınevi, Ankara et al. 1975.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German translation of the afterword by Cahit Arf at the Turkish Library Unionverlag .
personal data
SURNAME Atay, Oğuz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH İnebolu
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1977
Place of death Istanbul