Bilge Karasu

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Bilge Karasu
Born	9 January 1930 (1930-01-09) Istanbul, Turkey
Died	July 14, 1995(1995-07-14) (aged 65) Ankara, Turkey
Occupation	Poet, philosopher
Alma mater	Istanbul University
Notable awards	TDK Translation Prize, Pegasus Prize, Sedat Simavi Literature Award
Years active	1924-1976

Bilge Karasu (born 9 January 1930 – 13 July 1995), was a Turkish short story writer and novelist.

Biography[]

Bilge Karasu was born in 1930 in Istanbul.^[1] Bilge Karasu's parents, who later converted to Islam, were of Jewish origin, although he does not have any kinship with Emanuel Karasu, an Ottoman politician of Jewish origin.^[2] He studied at Şişli Terakki High School and at Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Philosophy. In 1963, he returned from Europe, where he had studied on a Rockefeller scholarship. In 1964, he started to work as a translator at the General Directorate of Press, Broadcasting, and Tourism and in the foreign broadcasting service of Ankara Radio.^[3]

Karasu wrote radio plays for Ankara Radioı.^[4] He worked as a lecturer at Hacettepe University's Philosophy Department from 1974 until his death.^[5]

He lived in a small basement on Nilgün Street in Ankara for years.^[6] He died on 14 July 1995 at Hacettepe University Hospital, Ankara where he was being treated for pancreatic cancer. He is buried in Karşıyaka Cemetery.^[7]

Bibliography[]

Stories[]

• (1963)
• (1970)
• (1980)
• (1982)
• (2008) (öykü, şiir, deneme, röportaj)

Novels[]

• (1985)
• (1990)

Essays[]

• (1994)
• (1995)
• (1996) (ölümünden sonra yayınlandı)

Radio plays[]

• Peter Pan (Radyo için oyunlaştıran Bilge Karasu) (1967), Ankara Radyosu
• Sevilmek, (Ocak 1970), Ankara Radyosu^[8]
• Kerem ile Kediler, (Mart 1970), Ankara Radyosu
• Gidememek^[9]
• Aşk^[10]

Translations[]

• Abraham Lincoln, Emil Ludwing, 1953, Cep Kitapları
• Doktor Martino, William Faulkner, 1956, Yenilik Publications
• Bella'nın Ölümü, Georges Simenon, 1981, Karacan Publications
• Salgına İnanıyorum, Jean Cocteau, 1968, Türk Dili (Sinema Ozel Sayısı), Ankara: Volume: 196 (January 1968), p. 422-425
• İşin Özü Bir Öykü Anlatmaktır, Jean Renoir, Türk Dili (Sinema Ozel Sayısı), Ankara: Volume: 196 (January 1968), p. 426-428

Awards[]

• 1963 , The Dead Man, translated from D. H. Lawrence

Books written about[]

• (1997) (Prepared by: Füsun Akatlı, Müge Gürsoy Sökmen)
• Yazının da Yırtılıverdiği Yer (Bir Bilge Karasu Okuması) (2007); Author: Cem İleri; Metis Publications
• Bilge Karasu'yu Okumak (Prepared by: Doğan Yaşat), Metis Publications, 2013.
• Excavating Memory: Bilge Karasu’s Istanbul and Walter Benjamin’s Berlin (2020); Author: Ülker Gökberk; Academic Studies Press

See also[]

• MEB 100 Türk edebiyatçısı listesi

References[]

Wikiquote has quotations related to: Bilge Karasu

• Güzel, Cemal (1996). "Bilge Karasu Kaynakçası". Anadolu Sanat Dergisi. Anadolu Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Yayınları. Özel Sayı: Bilge Karasu İçin.
• "Bilge Karasu". www.felsefe.hacettepe.edu.tr. 10 January 2015. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
• "Dosya: Bilge Karasu". Teorik Bakış Dergisi. Sel Yayınları. 1: 160. 2013.

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