Ayşe Kulin
Ayşe Kulin (born August 26, 1941 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish journalist and writer .
Life
Ayse Kulin grew up in a civil servant family of the Turkish upper class. The father, Muhittin Kulin, was a Bosnian, the mother Sitare Hanım, a Circassian who was still committed to the traditional Ottoman code of conduct.
Kulin attended high school in Istanbul and studied literature at the American College for Girls in Istanbul-Arnavutköy . During the first military coup on May 27, 1960 , she became politically active as a young woman (see: Yassıada trials ). Since the 1980s Kulin has been working as an editor and reporter for various Turkish newspapers and magazines, as a producer for television , commercials and films . She has published over fifteen books, four of which have been translated into English. She has received various Turkish literary prizes, including the 1996 Sait Faik literary prize . For her autobiographical novel Adı Aylin (her name is Aylin) she was voted Author of the Year by the Istanbul University in 1997. In the novel Bir Gün (One Day) she addresses the Kurdish issue in a women's friendship.
Kulin has been a voluntary UNICEF ambassador since 2007 .
Attitude to the Armenian Genocide
In an interview, Ayse Kulin said that the Armenian genocide could not be compared to the Holocaust because the Turks had a reason for "slaughtering" the Armenians and that such things could happen in times of war. Her comments were promptly followed by a petition calling for a boycott of her books.
Work in German translation
- The narrow path. Translated from the Turkish by Angelika Gillitz-Acar and Angelika Hoch. Afterword by Jens Peter Laut . Unionsverlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-293-10018-3 .
- as editor with Rita Rosen : stone wall and open windows. Stories by German and Turkish authors. Literaturca-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-935535-12-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ayşe Kulin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ayşe Kulin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography at Unionverlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ International book list at worldcat
- ↑ "Biz Ermenileri durup dururken kesmedik" ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Radika . February 6, 2014. Retrieved February 7, 2014
- ↑ Ayşe Kulin'in utanmasını istiyoruz . Change.org . Retrieved February 7, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kulin, Ayşe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kulin, Ayse |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |