Turkish writer: Peace Prize winner Yasar Kemal is dead – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          Beyond the borders of his native country as well known: the Turkish writer Yasar Kemal
     

 
                                           
 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

The Turkish writer Yasar Kemal’s dead. He was 91 years old. With its published 1955 novel “Mehmed My Hawk” he became the most widely read writers of his country. The fight for freedom and human rights runs like a thread through his work, to a 20 novels and numerous short stories belong.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

His novels and short stories were mostly located in the Taurus and in the Cilician plain and in some cases to worldwide success. They have been translated into many languages. In 1997, Kemal was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

                         
         
         
                                                             

Kemal was awarded many international literary awards and in 1972 became the first Turkish writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Günter Grass said in 1997 in his speech at the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to Kemal: “In Yasar Kemal’s books, the representation of racial fanaticism is indicated as an expression of official government policy. Therefore, the author is the ruling annoying. “

                         
         
         
                                                             

This line remained loyal Kemal. The Gezi protests in the summer of 2013. He supported and wrote in the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica”: “Hatred is created against freedom and democracy, is a major catastrophe in our generation and can never be forgiven. What we need today is a democratic regime. “

                                                                             
 
  

 
 
 
                       

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Yasar Kemal, winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, died on Saturday after a long illness. Kemal is counted among the most important novelists of Turkey.

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