books by Turkish authors
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FROM: julita Sch <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/9/01, 8:38 PM
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 5/10/01, 8:19 AM
>From: julita Sch <[removed]@yahoo.com>
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>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: books by Turkish authors
>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:33:54 -0700 (PDT)
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>I would like to learn more about Turkey's culture and
>history. Please suggest books that have Turkey as
>there background preferably written by a contemporary writer.
>
One that I know of is "Memed, My Hawk," by Yashar Kemal.
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FROM: "Bessie Makris" <[removed]@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 5/10/01, 9:12 AM
A NEW LIFE
THE BLACK BOOK
THE WHITE CASTLE
Another Turkish author is Adalet Agaoglu who wrote CURLEW
Bessie Makris
Allen County Public Library
P.O. Box 2270
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
FROM: "Baxter, Barbara" <[removed]@aclibrary.org>
REC'D: 5/10/01, 12:03 PM
Barbara Baxter
Alameda County Library
Fremont, CA 94539
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> >Subject: books by Turkish authors
> >Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:33:54 -0700 (PDT)
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> >I would like to learn more about Turkey's culture and
> >history. Please suggest books that have Turkey as
> >there background preferably written by a contemporary writer.
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> One that I know of is "Memed, My Hawk," by Yashar Kemal.
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FROM: "Maureen OConnor" <[removed]@bramlib.on.ca>
REC'D: 5/10/01, 12:14 PM
HTH
Maureen
"Never apologize for your reading tastes." Rosenberg
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Maureen O'Connor
Brampton Public Library
[removed]@bramlib.on.ca
All opinions expressed above are mine alone.
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 5/10/01, 12:14 PM
You don't say if you're looking for works in Turkish or in English only,
but since the example you give is English I'll assume the latter. Here's
what I find in my library's catalog; I've not read any of these and know
nothing more about them:
Title: Contemporary Turkish literature : fiction and poetry /
edited,
with an introduction by Talat Sait Halman.
Published: Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;
London : Associated University Presses, c1982.
Description: 454 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
Turkish literature--20th century--Translations into English.
English literature--20th century--Translations from Turkish.
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Title: The Turkish PEN.
Published: Istanbul : Turkish P.E.N. Center, 1991-
Summer 1991-
Semiannual
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
Turkish literature--Translation into English--Periodicals.
Contributors: Turkish P.E.N. Center.
Other titles: Turkish PEN reader
Turkish P.E.N. reader
<ongoing literary annual; 14th issue came out last year>
Title: Short dramas from contemporary Turkish literature / edited by
Suat Karantay.
Edition: 1st printing.
Published: Bebek, »Istanbul : Boògazi¹ci University, 1993.
Description: 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Author: Landau, Jacob M.
Title: Tekinalp, Turkish patriot, 1883-1961.
Published: [»Istanbul] : Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut
te »Istanbul, 1984.
Description: [xiii], 362 p. : 2 ports. ; 26 cm.
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
Tekinalp, Munis, 1883-1961.
Authors, Turkish--Political activity.
Turkey--Biography.
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Author: Nesin, Aziz.
Title: Istanbul boy : the autobiography of Aziz Nesin /
translated by
Joseph S. Jacobson.
Published: Austin : Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of
Texas at Austin, c1977-
Description: v. ; 22 cm.
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
Nesin, Aziz--Biography.
Authors, Turkish--20th century--Biography.
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Author: Mitler, Louis, 1944-
Title: Contemporary Turkish writers : a critical bio-bibliography of
leading writers in the turkish republican period up to 1980
/ by Louis Mitler.
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University, Research Institute
for
Inner Asian Studies 1988.
Description: xv, 325 p. : maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
Authors, Turkish--20th century--Biography
Turkish Literature--20th century--Bio-bibliography
Here's a website with bibliography of contemporary Turkish poetry in
translation:
http://pigeon.cc.kcl.ac.uk/mpt/Tr.Tur1.html
and here's a bookstore site with a great deal of Turkish literature in
English (not necessarily 20th century works, but most seem to be):
http://www.searchturkey.com/TURKEY/bookstore/bookstore_literature.htm
Same site also offers books on Turkish history, politics, etc.; see:
http://www.searchturkey.com/TURKEY/bookstore/welcome.html
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: Penelope Hamblin <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 5/10/01, 12:25 PM
(This has been on my to-read list for years. Eccentric English
missionaries travel by camel in remote Anatolia...)
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North Regional Branch Library
Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center
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