Kaan Arslanoğlu

Kaan Arslanoğlu (* 1959 ) is a Turkish psychiatrist, journalist and writer.

Arslanoğlu lives in Istanbul . As a journalist, he mainly accompanied the military coup in Turkey in 1980 and its aftermath. The situation of the intellectuals and political activists of that time are also the subject of his novel Characters , which was published in German in 2000. The psychologically complex work traces the development of various characters "in order to explore what determined Turkish society in the eighties" ( FAZ ).

Works (selection)

• Devrimciler (novel, 1988)
• Kimlik (novel, 1989)
• Çağrısız Hayalim (novel, 1992)
• Kişilikler (novel, 1995)
• Öteki Kayıp (1998)
• İntihar (novel, 1999)
• Yanılmanın Gerçekliği (İnceleme, 1994)
• Politics Psikiyatri , Adam Yayınları, Temmuz 2003 (Üçüncü Basım)

In German translation

• Characters . Translation from Turkish by Sabine Adatepe. Unrast, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-89771-641-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Kaan Arslanoğlu in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website
• Dr. Kaan Arslanoğlu ile söyleşi ( Memento from October 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• http://www.derkenar.com/kitapkurdu/arslanoglu.shtml
• http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/5362.html