Oğuz Atay
Oğuz Atay (born October 12, 1934 in İnebolu , † December 13, 1977 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish writer .
Life
Oğuz Atay's father was a judge, his mother a teacher in a provincial town in northern Turkey. He attended high school in Ankara until 1951 and after completing his military service studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul . After graduating in 1957, he opened a construction company that failed. In 1960 he found a job at the Technical University and was made an assistant professor there in 1970.
In 1972 Atay's first novel Die Haltlosen ("Tutunamayanlar") appeared, followed by Dangerous Games ("Tehlikeli Oyunlar") a year later . For “Tutunamayanlar” he received a literature award from the Turkish radio TRT in 1970 , even before it was published. Nevertheless, the novel only became a bestseller in Turkey in a new edition in 1984 after the author's death . The text is reluctant to translate it into other languages and Atay's other novels have not yet been translated either. The biographical novel Bir Bilim Adamının Romanı about Mustafa Inan is the first translation of a major work into German.
Fonts
- Topoğrafya. İ.DMMA Akşam İnşaat Bölümü Örgütü, İstanbul 1970, (A textbook of topography ).
- The unstable. From the Turkish by Johannes Neuner. binooki, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-943562-55-2 ( Tutunamayanlar. Roman. Sinan Yayınevi, İstanbul 1972).
- The mathematician. (Novel). Translated from the Turkish by Monika Carbe. Afterword by Gürsel Aytaç. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-293-10016-9 ( Bir bilim adamının romanı. Mustafa İnan. Bilgi Yayınevi, Ankara et al. 1975).
- Waiting for fear. 8 stories. From the Turkish by Recai Hallaç . binooki, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943562-00-2 ( Korkuyu Beklerken. May Yayınları, İstanbul 1975).
- Oyunlarla Yaşayanlar. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi oyuncuları, İstanbul 1985, (play).
- Günlük. İletişim, İstanbul 1987, (diary).
- Eylembilim. İletişim, İstanbul 1998, ISBN 975-470-699-9 (not completed).
- The track tellers - a dream. In: Beatrix Caner (editor and translator): Everything blue, everything green in this world. Turkish stories (= dtv. 13698). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-13698-3 , pp. 7-21.
literature
- Tatjana Seyppel: The intellectual at Oğuz Atay. Depicted in the novel "The Unstoppable" (= Mîzân. Vol. 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-447-03190-5 .
- Cahit Arf : My friend Mustafa Inan. (tr), in the Turkish edition: Oğuz Atay: Bir bilim adamının romanı. Mustafa Inan. Bilgi Yayınevi, Ankara et al. 1975.
Web links
- Literature by and about Oğuz Atay in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography at the Turkish Library Unionverlag
- worldcat
Individual evidence
- ^ German translation of the afterword by Cahit Arf at the Turkish Library Unionverlag .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Atay, Oğuz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | İnebolu |
DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1977 |
Place of death | Istanbul |