Murat Uyurkulak
Murat Uyurkulak (born 1972 in Aydın ) is a Turkish writer, translator and journalist.
Career
Uyurkulak was born in Aydın on the Turkish Aegean coast in 1972 . In İzmir he began to study law and then to study art history, both of which he broke off. He then lived in Diyarbakır (Eastern Turkey) and in Istanbul , among other things as a journalist and publisher. He also translated books by Edward Said and Michail Bakunin into Turkish. Uyurkulak works as a freelance writer and foreign editor for BirGün , a left-leaning Istanbul daily newspaper founded by intellectuals in 2004 without a commercially oriented publisher. BirGün is close to the ÖDP , in which Uyurkulak has been involved for many years.
Uyurkulak's debut novel Tol (2002; Eng. “Revenge”) is set against the background of the political developments in Turkey over the past decades and speaks in particular of the fate of the Kurds in Turkey; The follow-up novel Har is also about the clashes between the PKK and the Turkish state and the military coup in Turkey in 1980 . Tol is also available in German and Polish in a dramatized version.
Works
- 2002: Tol . novel
- German: anger . Translated by Gerhard Meier. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-293-10011-4
- 2006: Har . Novel, ISBN 975-342-550-3
- German: embers. A novel of the apocalypse . Trans. U. with an afterward by Sabine Adatepe. binooki, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943562-20-0
- 2011: Bazuka . Stories, ISBN 978-975-342-806-4
- 2016: Merhume . Novel, ISBN 9786055162658
Web links
- Literature by and about Murat Uyurkulak in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unionsverlag : Publishing information about Murat Uyurkulak
- ↑ Turkish cult author Uyurkulak: "My books are my revenge". on: Spiegel Online . November 23, 2008.
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SURNAME | Uyurkulak, Murat |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish writer and journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Aydın |