Tomris Uyar

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Tomris Uyar in her apartment in İstanbul - October 1996

Tomris Uyar (born March 15, 1941 in Istanbul , Turkey , † July 4, 2003 in Istanbul) was a Turkish writer .

Live and act

Uyar completed a degree in journalism and lived as a freelance writer and translator in Istanbul. From the mid-1960s onwards, she published short stories, diaries and translations as well as works on literary criticism.

Uyar is considered to be one of the outstanding authors in her country who deliberately dedicated herself to writing short stories as a genre that she did not want to be understood as narratives. With her own translations from English, French and German, she specifically prepared for the profession of a writer. Some of these translations, including Virginia Woolf , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Gabriel García Márquez , played an important role in the dissemination of Western literature in Turkey.

Her family came from Thessaloniki and at home she got to know the most important Turkish writers of the time. Tomris Uyar has belonged to a group of poets since the 1960s who brought existentialism and surrealism to Turkish literature. She was also a nationally known, active opponent of the Vietnam War.

In 1975 she and Turgut Uyar won the translation prize of the Turkish Language Society ( Türk Dil Kurumu ) for the translation of Lucretius ' didactic poem De rerum natura ( Evrenin yapısı , Istanbul 1974). In 1980 and 1987, she was one of two Turkish authors who were twice awarded the Sait Faik Literature Prize (Sait Faik Ödülü), Turkey's most prestigious storytelling prize. In the 1986/87 season she received the Avni Dilligil theater award , and in 2002 the Dünya magazine award for the best story book of the year . In the same year she was awarded the Sedat Simavi Prize for Literature.

Publications (selection)

Stories and other writings
  • İpek ve bakır . Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi, 1971 (5 ed.)
  • Ödeşmeler . İstanbul: Sinan Yayınları, 1973 (3 ed.)
  • Dizboyu papatyalar . İstanbul: Okar Yayınları, 1975 (5 ed.)
  • Yürekte bukağı: öyküler . İstanbul: Okar Yayınları, 1979 (4 ed.), Awarded the Sait Faik Story Prize for 1980
  • Sesler, yüzler, sokaklar . Istanbul: Hür, 1981
  • Yaz düşleri / Düş kışları: öyküler . İstanbul: Ada Yayınları, 1981 (3 ed.)
  • Diz boyu papatyalar . İstanbul: Adam Yayıncılık, 1982
  • Gece gezen kızlar: öyküler . İstanbul: Ada Yayınları, 1983 (3 ed.)
  • Rus ruleti . İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1985
  • Yaza yolculuk: öyküler . İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1986 (4 ed.), Awarded the Sait Faik Story Prize for 1987
  • Sekizinci günah . Cağaloğlu, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1990 (2 ed.)
  • İki yaka iki uç: öyküler . Istanbul: Gendaş Yayınları, 1992
  • Otuzların kadını . Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 1992 (3 ed.)
  • Tanışma günleri / anları: (1989-1995) . Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1995
  • Aramızdaki şey . Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1998 (3 ed.)
  • Şiirde thin yok mu: Turgut Uyar üzerine yazılar . Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1999
  • Yüzleşmeler: bir uyumsuzun notları, 1995-1999 . Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 2000
Diaries
  • Gündökümü 75: günlük . ̇Istanbul: Koza Yayınları, 1976
  • Gündökümü (1975-1980): bir uyumsuzun notları . İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1990
  • Günlerin tortusu (1980-1984): bir uyumsuzun notları. Istanbul, Ada Yayınları, 1985
  • Yazılı günler (1985-1988) . Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 1989
Translations into German
  • Dream seller. Short stories . Translated by Beatrix Caner, Frankfurt / Main: Literaturca Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-935535-02-3

literature

  • Tayfun Demir: Turkish literature in German. A bibliography with explanations . Secretariat for joint cultural work in NRW, Duisburg 1995, ISBN 3-89279-510-X , p. 80.
  • Luis Mitler: Contemporary Turkish writers. A critical bio-bibliography of leading writers in the Turkish Republican period up to 1980 . Indiana University Press, Bloomington (Indiana) 1988, ISBN 0-933070-14-4 , p. 259. (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tomris Uyar on literaturca.de ( Memento from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Uyar, Tomris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2003
Place of death Istanbul