Hürriyet: Yaşar Kemal Medeniyetler Kütüphanesi açıldı
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Yaşar Kemal was a leading Turkish writer and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk.
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culture · Turkish writer and activist (1923–2015) · screenwriter · novelist · journalist · poet · short story writer · writer · translator · also Yaşar Kemal, Yashar Kemal, Kemal
Born 6 October 1923 · Died 28 February 2015 · Q327142
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Died 2015-02-28.
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Awarded Bjørnson Prize (2013).
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Awarded Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards (2008).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the Bilkent University (2002).
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Thilda predeceased Yaşar, dying, aged 78, from pulmonary complications in an Istanbul hospital
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Awarded Stig Dagerman Prize (1997).
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Awarded Monismanien Prize (1997).
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Awarded International Nonino Prize (1997).
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Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (1997).
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Awarded Catalonia International Prize (1996).
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Under anti-terror laws for an article he wrote for Der Spiegel highlighting the Turkish Army's destruction of Kurdish villages during the Turkish–Kurdish conflict
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Was prosecuted for making separatist propaganda after writing an article for Index on Censorship, because of his support for Kurdish dissidents
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Strasbourg-II (1991).
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Awarded Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1982).
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The magazine was closed during the crackdown on left-wing politicians
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Kemal established the Marxist magazine Ant together with Dogan Özgüden and Fethi Naci
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Kemal joined the Workers Party of Turkey (TİP) and "served as one of its leaders until quitting after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968"
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Received international acclaim with the publication of Memed, My Hawk (Turkish: İnce Memed)
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Yaşar Kemal married Thilda Serrero, a member of a prominent Sephardi Jewish family in Istanbul
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In 1952, Yaşar Kemal married Thilda Serrero, a member of a prominent Sephardi Jewish family in Istanbul.
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Where he saw the beginning of the planned demolition of the island's Holy Cross Church
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Kemal was imprisoned for alleged communist activities
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While serving in the military in Kayseri
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Kemal published his first book Ağıtlar ("Ballads"), a compilation of folkloric themes
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Born 1923-10-06.
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