Adalet Ağaoğlu
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Adalet Ağaoğlu is a Turkish
novelist and playwright
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. 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
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Turkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
novelist and playwright
Playwright
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Publishing career
As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of TurkeyTurkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. 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
Anadolu University
Anadolu University is a public university in Eskişehir, Turkey and the fourth largest university in the world by enrollment.- History :...
followed by the "Ph.D. of Humane Letters" from the Ohio State University
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
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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