Kemal Bilbaşar

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Kemal Bilbaşar (* 1910 in Çanakkale ; † January 21, 1983 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish teacher and writer who is one of the representatives of Turkish "village literature".

In short stories and novels, he mainly portrayed the daily worries, beliefs and customs of the people living in the Anatolian steppe, who suffer from poverty and injustice , "often with humor, but never deviating from critical social realism," writes Olcay Önertay. Bilbaşar preferred short sentences, a clear and lively style often tinged with local dialects. In 2006 the Turkish Ministry of Education added his novels Cemo (1966) and Yonca Kız (1971) to the list of the “100 most important literary works” in the world recommended for high school and primary school students.

Life

Bilbaşar's father, Salonika Police Chief , was murdered when the son was two years old. The young mother fled to Anatolia , where she married a civilian official. The hardships of the war force Kemal and his step-siblings to do child labor. Nevertheless, he was able to attend a teacher training college, where he graduated in 1929. After two years as a primary school teacher, he began studying history, which he completed in 1935. He marries Bedia Bilge, a visual artist. He plays the violin himself. The couple have two children. After completing his military service, Bilbaşar teaches history and geography at the Karataş University in Izmir .

He received his first attention as a writer in 1937 with the short story Çımacı Hasan . One year later, he and friends founded the monthly literary magazine Aramak (The Search). Since 1939 - success with the anthology Anadolu'dan Hikayeler - Bilbaşar has produced stories, radio and theater plays as well as novels, with the exception of the years 1945 to 1952, in which he was persecuted because of his socialist convictions. Between 1953 and 1971 he also wrote regularly for the opposition daily Democrat İzmir , as well as in numerous other papers and magazines. In 1961 he retired (at 51) so that he could devote himself more intensively to writing. From 1966 he lived in Istanbul. Bilbaşar owes a number of books to this period (until his death in 1983), including the novel Cemo , for which he received a Turkish literary prize (1967). The novel was published in English in London in 1976 and in Slovak in Bratislava in 1982. Several other books or individual stories from Bilbaşar were also translated.

Works

Volumes of short stories

  • Anadoludan Hikayeler , 1939
  • Cevizli Bahçe , 1941, 1975
  • Pazarlık , 1944
  • Pembe Kurt , 1953
  • Köyden Kentten Üç Buutlu Hikayeler , 1956, 1961
  • Irgatların Öfkesi , 1971
  • Kurbağa Çiftliği , 1976, 2010

Novels

  • Denizin Çağırışı , 1943, most recently in 2008
  • Ay Tutulduğu Gece , 1961, 1971
  • Cemo , 1966, last 2010
  • Memo , 1969, most recently in 2008
  • Yeşil Gölge , 1970, 2003
  • Yonca Kız , 1971, most recently 2010
  • Başka Olur Ağaların Düğünü , 1972, most recently 2003
  • Kölelik Dönemeci , 1977, 2003
  • Bedoş , 1980, 2003
  • Zühre Ninem , 1981, 2003

literature

  • B. Necatigil: Edebiyatimizda isimler sözlügü , Istanbul 1977
  • A. Özkirimli: Kemal Bilbasar , in: Milliyet sanat dergisi , 65, 1983, pages 24/25
  • A. Oktavy: Iki tasrali: Bilbasar ve Atilgan'da yabancilasmis birey üstüne notlar , in: Yazko edebiyat , 5, 1983, issue 29, pages 92-99
  • D. Hizlan: Kemal Bilbasar , in: Hürriyet gösteri , 3, 1983, issue 27, page 22
  • O. Önertay: Cumhuriyet dönemi turk roman ve öyküsü , Ankara 1984, page 236/237

Awards

  • Türk Dil Kurumu Roman Ödülü, 1967 (for Cemo )
  • May Roman Ödülü, 1969 (for Yeşil Gölge )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It was triggered in 1950 by the writing Bizim Köy (Our Village) by the young teacher Mahmut Makal, see Turkey - Breeding Ground for Avian Flu Frankfurter Allgemeine from January 18, 2006, No. 15 / page 9
  2. ↑ Quoted from the website Kemal Bilbasar , accessed on February 7, 2011
  3. ^ Also the Kemal Bilbaşar website , accessed on February 7, 2011
  4. ↑ Cemo was made into a film by A. Yilmaz in the same year
  5. ↑ “The rather intricate plot is embedded in a romantic-poetic atmosphere that is seldom found in contemporary Turkish literature,” says Kindler's New Literature Lexicon (Munich 1988). Nazif Telek emphasizes another aspect. It was only with this historical, anti-feudal novel by Bilbaşar, who has a Kurdish miller's daughter from the country as a heroine, that “the silence about the Kurds” was broken in Turkey. Bilbaşar also includes the Kurdish Seyh Sait uprising of 1925 ( And the Kurd dances ... The image of the Kurd in contemporary Turkish literature , in: VIA REGIA Heft 23, Erfurt 1995). Cemo was born in the turmoil of the uprising.
personal data
SURNAME Bilbaşar, Kemal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Çanakkale
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1983
Place of death Istanbul