Adalet Ağaoğlu

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Adalet Ağaoğlu (born Sümer; born October 23, 1929 in Nallıhan in the province of Ankara , † July 14, 2020 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish writer .

Life

Fatma Inayet (“Adalet”) Sümer went to primary school in her native Nallıhan and, after the family moved, attended middle school and high school in Ankara . In her youth she was impressed by reading the novel “Wren” (Çalıkuşu) by Reşat Nuri Güntekin . She studied French language and literature at Ankara University and took part in the city's literary life by attending poetry matinees by poets Yahya Kemal Beyatlı , Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Orhan Veli .

In 1951 Adalet Sümer got a job with the Ankara State Broadcasting Corporation , a forerunner of the TRT . There she worked as a dramaturge and translator. During this time he also made his first own literary attempts. In 1955 she married the engineer Halim Ağaoğlu, with whom she went to the USA for two years (1957-1959). In addition to her radio activity, she founded the first private theater “Meydan Sahnesi” in Ankara with artist friends in 1961 , but was not very successful with Bertolt Brecht 's Caucasian Chalk Circle, which she published . On the radio she did not remain disaffected in the political upheavals in Turkey and was brought to justice in 1969 when she recommended a Cuba report to Sartre for discussion on the radio. She gave up her position with the TRT, but was reinstated after the acquittal.

In 1970 she left the radio for good and wrote her first novel To Lie Down and Die , for which she found the publishing house Buchhaus Remzi with difficulty in Istanbul , which published the book in June 1973. This was followed by four volumes of short stories and a further eight novels, which were awarded various literary prizes. In 1975 she received the renowned Sait Faik Literature Prize for the stories published under the title Hochspannung ( Yüksek Gerilim ) . Her third novel, Bir Düğün Gecesi , was awarded the “Madaralı Prize” and the Orhan Kemal Literature Prize in 1980. In 1983 the author moved from Ankara to Istanbul.

Ağaoğlu played a self-confident and controversial role in the Turkish literary scene.

In 1998 Ağaoğlu received honorary doctorates from Anadolu University and Ohio State University , which held a conference “Modernism and Social Change: In Honor of Adalet Ağaoğlu” in their honor. In 2018 Ağaoğlu was awarded the Erdal Öz Literature Prize. She died in July 2020 at the age of 90.

Works in German translation

  • Lie down and die . Translated from Turkish by Ingrid Iren. Afterword by Erika Glassen. Zurich: Unionsverl., 2008 ISBN 978-3-293-10012-1
  • The delicate rose of my longing . From the Turkish by Wolfgang Scharlipp, Stuttgart: Ararat-Verlag, 1979 ISBN 3-921889-01-4
  • From the Bosphorus to Ararat. A literary journey through today's Turkey , ed. by Hanjo Breddermann. With contributions by Adalet Ağaoğlu ... Hamburg: Galgenberg, 1988 ISBN 3-925387-37-4
  • Sen ey kutsal işik . a story: German-Turkish. Oh, you holy light . With drawings by Elmar Heimbach. From the Turkish by Nurhan Karacak and Michael Pfeiffer, Essen: Klartext-Verlag, 1983, 1st edition ISBN 3-88474-201-9

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of Adalet Ağaoğlu
  2. ↑ Kafkas tebeşir dairesi . The Caucasian chalk circle. Ankara: Kardeş Matbaası, 1963
  3. ↑ translator colloquium ( Memento from December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Ağaoğlu, Adalet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agaoglu, Adalet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Nallıhan
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2020
Place of death Istanbul