Erendiz Atasu

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Erendiz Atasü (* 1947 in Ankara ) is a Turkish writer .

Life

Atasü studied pharmacy at the university in her hometown and graduated with a doctorate. She then worked there until 1997 as a lecturer in pharmacognosy .

From 1981 she emerged as a narrator. In 1996 Erendiz Atasü was honored with the Orhan Kemal Prize , the most prestigious literary prize in Turkey, for her novel Dağın Öteki Yüzü . In 1997 she received the Yunus Nadi Prize and in 1998 the Haldun Taner Prize for the stories Taş Üstüne Gül Oyması . In addition to numerous translations into English, French and Dutch, a. a. the story volume Das Lied des Meeres translated into German.

Works

  • 1983 Kadınlar da Vardır (Women Also Exist), short stories
  • 1985 Lanetliler (The Damned), short stories
  • 1988 Dullara Yas Yakışır (Mourning Becomes the Widow), short stories
  • 1992 Onunla Güzeldim (Beautiful with Him), short stories
  • 1995 Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain), novel
  • 1997 Taş Üstüne Gül Oyması (Roses engraved in Marbel), short stories
  • 1998 Uçu (Evanessence), short stories
  • 1999 Gençliğin O Yakıcı Mevsimi (That Scorching Season of Youth), novel
  • 2000 Benim Yazarlarım (My Writers), essays
  • 2001 Kadınlığım, Yazarlığım, Yurdum (My Womanhood, Authorship and My Country), essays
  • 2002 Bir Yaşdönümü Rüyası (Midlife Dream), novel
  • 2003 İmgelerin İzi (Reflections of Images), essays
  • 2004 Kavram ve Slogan (Concept and Slogan), essays
  • 2006 Açıkoturumlar Çağı (The Age of Open Debate), novel
  • 2008 İncir Ağacının Ömümü (Death of a Fig Tree), short stories
  • 2008 Düşünce Sefaletinin Kıskacında (In the Trap of Miserable Thinking), essays

Awards

expenditure

  • Wolfgang Riemann (Ed.): Modern Türk öyküleri. Modern Turkish stories. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-09471-9 (bilingual)
  • Börte Sagaster (Ed.): Love, Lies and Ghosts. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-293-10006-0
  • Christel Schütte (translator): The song of the sea. Epilogue: Beatrix Caner. Literaturca Verlag, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 978-3935535076

Research literature

  • Nil Korkut-Nayki (2014): "Woman's Writing and the Body in a Turkish Context: Erendiz Atasü's The Other Side of the Mountain ", in: Middle Eastern Literatures , Volume 17, Issue 3, pages 223-237.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A selection appeared in German translation in 2004 under the title: Das Lied des Meeres. Literaturca Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-935535-07-4
personal data
SURNAME Atasu, Erendiz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Ankara