Hasan Ali Toptaş
Hasan Ali Toptaş (born October 15, 1958 in Çal , Denizli ) is a Turkish writer .
Life
Hasan was born in Çal in 1958 and grew up in Buldan as the son of a driver. Toptaş graduated from the Turkish equivalent of high school and the higher vocational school for tax officials. From 1981 Toptaş worked as a bailiff in several small towns and is now an official in the Ministry of Finance in Sincan near Ankara .
The loneliness as a newcomer and stranger to the local society through professional transfers made the already introverted to write.
“Perhaps the force of loneliness that I experienced in these small towns drove me completely into the world of letters. This life that is lived in small provincial towns, the mayors, the wine festivals, the minibuses, all of their missing persons, the silent women, the children who smuggle themselves into the cinemas, the people who are crushed by the burden of life, theirs Worries, their hopelessness, their stories told in the light of the kerosene lamp - they all found their way into my stories and novels. "
After he was able to accommodate numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies, his first volume of short stories came out in 1987. Personality of Smile had been rejected so many times that Toptas eventually had the book printed at his own expense. It was not until 1994 that broad public recognition followed almost suddenly with the novel Die Schattenlosen . Since then he has published three of his own anthologies with short stories and four novels. In May 2006 he was awarded the Orhan Kemal Prize , Turkey's most prestigious literary prize. The literary scholar Yıldız Ecevit said of him, "Hasan Ali Toptaş is one of the few milestones in Turkish literature in the last 25 years". In August 2006, the Zürcher Unionsverlag published the novel Die Schattenlosen for the first time in a German translation as part of its Turkish library . In November 2006 Toptaş went on an extensive reading tour through Germany with his translator. In 2013 he received the Sedat Simavi Prize for Literature.
Works (selection)
- Die Schattenlosen (translation by Gerhard Meier) Unionsverlag, Zurich 2006. 265 pp. ISBN 3-293-10004-X
- Bin Hüzünlü Haz Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, Aralık 2002. ISBN 975-458-398-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Hasan Ali Toptaş in the catalog of the German National Library
- Documents by Turkish literary scholars on The Shadowless
Individual references, sources
- ↑ http://www.unionsverlag.com/info/link.asp?link_id=6636&pers_id=1763&pic=../portrait/toptashasanali.jpg&tit=Hasan%20Ali%20Toptas Şükrü Erbaş: Interview with Hasan Ali Toptaş
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Orhan Kemal Prize for Hasan Ali Toptaş
- ↑ http://www.marburg-news.de/2006/mn-kul11.php?tag=12 Official writers: Toptas and Hilsenrath read
- ↑ http://www.unionsverlag.com/info/link.asp?title_id=2378&link_id=6832 Yıldız Ecevit: The Aesthetics of Disappearance
- ↑ http://www.tc-karlsruhe-bk.de/kutuphane/book.php?op=bookinfo&id=1445 Library of the Turkish Consulate General in Karlsruhe
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toptaş, Hasan Ali |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Toptas, Hasan Ali |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Çal , Turkey |