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Biography of Yashar Kemal
Name: Yashar Kemal
Birth Date: 1922
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Hemite, Turkey
Nationality: Turkish
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist
Yashar Kemal
Yashar Kemal (born 1922) was the most successful and most widely known of modern Turkish novelists. His works, which also include short stories and essays, are local in color and infused with the spirit of Turkish folk traditions. They show the influence of world classics from Homer to Stendal, Steinbeck, and Faulkner.Yashar Kemal was born Kemal Sadik Göçeli in southwestern Turkey in the small village of Hemite near Osmaniye in the province of Adana. His father came from a line of feudal landlords and his mother from a family of famous brigands in eastern Anatolia. At the age of five Yashar Kemal saw his father shot to death while praying in the mosque and, in the same incident, lost one of his eyes. He did not attend school until he was nine (walking two hours a day in order to do so) and had no formal education …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the environment (sometimes painted with panoramic strokes, sometimes etched with minute attention to detail) with stream of consciousness writing. He won many awards in Turkey and abroad. The universal appeal of his work is attested by the many translations available in more than 20 languages.Kemal was accused by the Turkish government of promoting separatism through an article he had written for the German publication, Der Spiegel, and was arrested in 1995. Kemal was given a suspended 20-month sentence in 1996 for speaking out against the government's actions regarding the Kurds. Further Reading Edebiyat 5 (Nos. 1 and 2, 1980), available through the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is a special issue devoted to Yashar Kemal. Also see "Yashar Kemal's epic struggle" by Nicole Pope in World Press Review, July 1996, vol. 43, no. 7, p. 40; and a Web site maintained by the Armenian National Committee of Canada, http://armen-info.com/lacuse/publes/95loel.htm.
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