Adalet Ağaoğlu

Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer in 23 October 1929)[1] is a Turkish novelist and playwright. She is considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Turkish literature.[2] She has also written essays, memoirs, and short stories.

Adalet Ağaoğlu
Born
Adalet Sümer

(1929-10-23) 23 October 1929
Nallıhan, Ankara Province, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
Alma materAnkara University
OccupationNovelist, playwright
Spouse(s)Halim Ağaoğlu (m. 1954)
AwardsTurkish Presidency Merit Award
1995

Life and career

Early life

She was born in Nallıhan, Ankara Province on 23 October 1929.[3][4]

Publishing career

As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey. Considered to be one of the most important living authors in Turkey a revered intellectual, her tightly constructed prose is a balance between a realistic millieu of Turkey which she knows firsthand and the broader, more humanistic elements of social pressure and gender prejudice. In an unfamiliar urban world, her fictional newcomers to modernity struggle with age-old issues complicated by perplexing political, religious, economic and social forces.

She has been rewarded with numerous honors besides the literary awards she won in the fields of novel, short story and drama. For her perception of subtle and overt changes in modern Turkish society and her writing entitled "Modernism and Social Change", Adalet Ağaoğlu received the "Turkish Presidency Merit Award" in 1995. In 1998, Ağaoğlu received "Honorary Ph.D." from Anadolu University followed by the "Ph.D. of Humane Letters" from the Ohio State University.

Theatre and radio drama

  • Yaşamak – 1955
  • Evcilik Oyunu – 1964
  • Sınırlarda Aşk – 1965
  • Çatıdaki Çatlak – 1965
  • Tombala – 1967
  • Çatıdaki Çatlak 1967
  • Sınırlarda Aşk-Kış-Barış 1970
  • Üç Oyun: Bir Kahramanın Ölümü, Çıkış, Kozalar 1973
  • Kendini Yazan Şarkı 1976
  • Duvar Öyküsü 1992
  • Çok Uzak-Fazla Yakın 1991

Novels

  • Ölmeye Yatmak – 1973
  • Fikrimin İnce Gülü – 1976
  • Bir Düğün Gecesi – 1979
  • Yazsonu – 1980
  • Üç Beş Kişi – 1984
  • Hayır... – 1987
  • Ruh Üşümesi – 1991
  • Romantik Bir Viyana Yazı – 1993

References
  1. Profile of Adalet Ağaoğlu
  2. "Nihat Duğancı, Adalet Ağaoğlu'nun Romanları ve Romancılığı, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Çanakkale, 2006". Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2014-07-24.
  4. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes. 2 (2 ed.). Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG. 1984. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-07-079169-5. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
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