Yusuf Atılgan

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Yusuf Atılgan (born June 27, 1921 in Manisa , † October 9, 1989 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish writer .

Life

Yusuf Ziya Atılgan's father was a tax officer in Manisa, whose family had to move from Thessaly in 1878 . When Manisa was destroyed by the Greeks in the Greco-Turkish War , the family moved to the nearby village of Hacırahmanlı and farmed. Atılgan attended middle school in Manisa and then went to boarding school in Balıkesir to graduate from high school . In order to become a teacher, he studied literature in Istanbul at the İstanbul Üniversitesi and, since he was lacking a scholarship, at the army teacher training institute . The strongest influence during his studies was left by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar .

In 1945 he worked enthusiastically in the army as a teacher at the “Maltepe Askeri Lisesi” cadet school in Akşehir . However, he was accused of being a communist , sentenced by a military court to six months in prison and released from the army. Atılgan then withdrew to the country. After fruitless attempts in agriculture, he made several attempts to write a novel that was not to become a village novel , and in 1958 published the idler ("Aylak Adam"). He published the novel Anayurt Oteli in 1973 after an 8-year career break. In 1976 he went to Istanbul, where he worked as a translator and editor for various publishers, with Ülkü Tamer helping him to get orders from the Milliyet and Karacan publishing houses .

He formulated his conception of realism in literature as follows:

I try to reproduce the situation of the characters in the novel with rather unimportant events and concrete details. I hate abstract analyzes. I deal meticulously with details.

In 1958 he received a second prize for Aylak Adam at the Yunus Nadi Prize . For Bodur Minareden Öte (1960) he received the Sait Faik Prize .

With his second wife Serpil, whom he married in 1976, he had a son Mehmet, who was born in 1979.

Movie

Anayurt Oteli was made into a film by Ömer Kavur in 1986, received an award at the International Istanbul Film Festival and in 1987 received the European FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice International Film Festival .

Works

literature

  • Mirko Gemmel: idlers, idlers and flaneurs - Yusuf Atilgans 'idlers' and related figures in German literature. In: Studies on German Language and Literature , Issue 25, Istanbul 1/2011, pp. 71-85

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Mahir Ünlü in: "Milliyet Sanat Dergisi" (art and literature supplement to the Milliyet newspaper), No. 227 / November 1, 1989, excerpts translated by Monika Carbe at: Unionsverlag, Turkish Library
  2. ↑ FIPRESCI Prize in its version at the time
personal data
SURNAME Atılgan, Yusuf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atilgan, Yusuf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Manisa
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1989
Place of death Istanbul