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| birth_name = Tomris Gedik
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| birth_place = [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]]
| birth_place = [[Istanbul]], Turkey
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| resting_place = [[Zincirlikuyu Cemetery]], Istanbul
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| partner = [[Cemal Süreya]] (1964–1967)
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'''Tomris Uyar''' (15 March 1941 – 4 July 2003) was a [[Turkish language|Turkish]] writer and translator. She was born in [[Istanbul]], the daughter of two lawyers and granddaughter of [[Republican People's Party]] politician Süleyman Sırrı Gedik.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailysabah.com/portrait/2016/01/23/tomris-uyar-a-minimalist-and-humanist-writer|title=Tomris Uyar: A minimalist and humanist writer|last=Arslanbenzer|first=Hakan|date=2016-01-23|website=Daily Sabah|language=en|access-date=2020-03-15}}</ref> She was educated at the British Girls' Secondary School and at [[Arnavutköy]] American Girls' College, now called [[Robert College]] (1961). She graduated from the Journalism Institute affiliated to the [[Faculty of Economics of Istanbul University]] (1963).
'''Tomris Uyar''' (15 March 1941 – 4 July 2003) was a Turkish writer.

The grave of the author, who died in 2003 due to [[esophageal cancer]], is in [[Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı]].


== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
Uyar, who is one of the founders of ''[[Papirüs]]'' magazine together with [[Cemal Süreya]] and [[Ülkü Tamer]], has published her essays, criticisms and book introductions in magazines such as ''[[Yeni Dergi]]'', and ''[[Varlık]]''.<ref>{{cite thesis|author=Hayriye Müge Gür|title=An analysis of two translations of Mrs. Dalloway into Turkish |url=https://acikbilim.yok.gov.tr/handle/20.500.12812/605804|location=[[Doğuş University]]|page=10|degree=MA|date=2015}}</ref> She won the [[Sait Faik Story Award]] in 1979 with Yürekte Bukağı and in 1986 with Journey to Summer from her ten short story collections. Uyar's diaries, of which more than 60 translations have been published, have been published under the general title of "Gündökümü".
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Uyar was born Rana Tomris Gedirk in [[Istanbul]]. Both her parents practiced law. Her grandfather was the Republican People's Party politician Süleyman Sırrı Gedik.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailysabah.com/portrait/2016/01/23/tomris-uyar-a-minimalist-and-humanist-writer|title=Tomris Uyar: A minimalist and humanist writer|last=Arslanbenzer|first=Hakan|date=2016-01-23|website=Daily Sabah|language=en|access-date=2020-03-15}}</ref> She graduated in journalism in 1963 and lived in Istanbul as a freelance writer and translator.  From the mid-1960s she published stories, diaries and translations, as well as literary criticism..


Completing her undergraduate study at İstanbul University at the Department of Journal, she continued her writing career with translation, stories and articles in various journals.<ref>{{Citation |last=Horst |first=Johanna-Charlotte |title=Virginia Woolfs Atomismus |date=2023-09-12 |work=Trouble Every Day |pages=107–120 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/9783846767214_007 |access-date=2024-04-19 |publisher=Brill {{!}} Fink |doi=10.30965/9783846767214_007 |isbn=978-3-8467-6721-4}}</ref> In her own writings, Tomris Uyar used the techniques of “interior monologue-dialogue” and “stream of consciousness”, and made experimental innovations. By using stream of consciousness, she not only reflected the inner worlds of their characters but also worked on thefluency by omitting certain punctuation marks to catch her readers’ attention.
Uyar is considered one of the most accomplished authors in her country,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201060359/http://www.literaturca.de/html/tomris_uyar.htm|title=Türkische Literatur - Tomris Uyar|date=2009-02-01|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2020-03-15}}</ref> who deliberately dedicated herself to writing short stories, having eleven books of the genre published. Her translations of works from English, French and German, by authors including [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] and [[Gabriel García Márquez]], played an important role in teaching Western literature in Turkey. Tomris Uyar had belonged to a group of poets since the 1960s that brought existentialism and surrealism to Turkish literature.  She was also a nationally known active opponent of the Vietnam War.


Uyar was a prolific writer of short stories, of which eleven volumes were published.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.literaturca.de/html/tomris_uyar.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201060359/http://www.literaturca.de/html/tomris_uyar.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-02-01|title=Türkische Literatur – Tomris Uyar|date=2009-02-01|access-date=2020-03-15}}</ref> She translated into Turkish works by authors including [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]], [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [[Lewis Carroll]], [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] and [[Gabriel García Márquez]].
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In 1975, together with [[Turgut Uyar]], she won the Turkish Language Society (Türk Dil Kurumu) translation prize for the translation of [[Lucretius]]' natural encyclopedia ''[[De rerum natura]]'' (Evrenin yapisi, Istanbul 1974). In 1980 and 1987 she was one of two Turkish authors who were awarded the [[Sait Faik Short Story Award|Sait Faik Literature Prize]] (Sait Faik Ödülü), the most prestigious narrative award in Turkey.  In the 1986/87 season she received the theater award "Avni Dilligil", in 2002 the award for the best narrative volume of the year from the magazine "Dünya". In the same year she was awarded the [[Sedat Simavi Prize for Literature]].


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In 1975 she and her husband [[Turgut Uyar]] won a Turkish Language Society (''Türk Dil Kurumu'') prize for their translation of [[Lucretius]]' natural encyclopedia ''[[De rerum natura]]'' (Evrenin yapısı, Istanbul 1974). In 1980 and 1987 she was one of two Turkish authors who were awarded the [[Sait Faik Short Story Award]]. In 1987 she received the Theater Art Development Foundation's annual award in memory of actor Avni Dilligil, and in 2002 the ''[[Dünya (newspaper)|Dünya]]'' award for the best narrative volume of the year. In the same year she was awarded the [[Sedat Simavi Literature Award]].
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==Tribute==

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In 2020, [[Google]] celebrated her with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-tomris-uyar|title=Celebrating Tomris Uyar|website=Google|date=11 May 2020}}</ref>
== Private life ==
The marriage of Tomris Uyar, who made his first marriage to the poet [[Ülkü Tamer]] in 1963, ended in 1964 after their daughter Ekin was drowned in milk. Tomris Uyar married the poet [[Turgut Uyar]] in 1969 and they had a son named Hayri Turgut Uyar. Hayri Turgut Uyar is now a lecturer at [[ITÜ]](Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi).

[[Edip Cansever]] is also in love with Tomris Uyar, who was in love with [[Cemal Süreya]] while he was married. In fact, at a raki table where he sat alone with Tomris, Cansever wrote on a napkin, "Tomris used to love rakı, and I used to love her..."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Aksucu |first1=İlayda |title=Dört Büyük Şair ve Paylaşılamayan Bir Kadın: Tomris Uyar |url=https://listelist.com/dort-sair-bir-kadin-tomris-uyar/ |website= |access-date=5 May 2022 |date=20 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920111613/https://listelist.com/dort-sair-bir-kadin-tomris-uyar/ |archive-date=20 September 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

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== Tribute ==

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In 2020, Google celebrated her with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-tomris-uyar/|title=Celebrating Tomris Uyar|website=Google|date=11 May 2020}}</ref>


== Selected works ==
== Selected works ==
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; Short stories and other writings
; Short stories and other writings


* ''İpek ve bakır''. Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi, 1971 (5 Aufl.)
* ''İpek ve bakır'' (Silk and Copper) – 1971
* ''Ödeşmeler''. İstanbul: Sinan Yayınları, 1973 (3 Aufl.)
* ''Ödeşmeler'' (Paybacks) – 1973
* ''Dizboyu papatyalar''. İstanbul: Okar Yayınları, 1975 (5 Aufl)
* ''Dizboyu papatyalar'' (Kneehigh Daisies) – 1975
* ''Yürekte bukağı: öyküler''. İstanbul: Okar Yayınları, 1979 (4 Aufl.), ausgezeichnet mit dem Sait-Faik-Erzählpreis für 1980
* ''Yürekte bukağı'' (Heartbreak) – 1979, winner of the 1980 Sait Faik prize
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* ''Yaz düşleri / Düş kışları'' (Summer Dreams / Dream Winters) – 1981
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* ''Sesler, yüzler, sokaklar''. Istanbul: Hür, 1981
* ''Gecegezen kızlar'' (Girls Wandering at Night) – 1983
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* ''Yaz düşleri / Düş kışları: öyküler''. İstanbul: Ada Yayınları, 1981 (3 Aufl.)
* ''Yaza yolculuk'' (Journey to Summer) – 1985, winner of the 1986 Sait Faik prize
* ''Diz boyu papatyalar''. İstanbul: Adam Yayıncılık, 1982
* ''Sekizinci günah'' (The Eighth Sin) – 1990
* ''Gece gezen kızlar: öyküler''. İstanbul: Ada Yayınları, 1983 (3 Aufl.)
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* ''Otuzların kadını'' (Woman of the Thirties) – 1992
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* ''Rus ruleti''. İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1985
* ''Aramızdaki şey'' (What is between us) – 1998
* ''Yaza yolculuk: öyküler''. İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1986 (4 Aufl.), ausgezeichnet mit dem Sait-Faik-Erzählpreis für 1987
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* ''Şiirde dün yok mu: Turgut Uyar üzerine yazılar'' (No yesterday in poetry? Articles on Turgut Uyar) – 1999
* ''Sekizinci günah''. Cağaloğlu, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1990 (2 Aufl.)
* ''İki yaka iki uç: öyküler''. Istanbul: Gendaş Yayınları, 1992
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* ''Otuzların kadını''. Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 1992 (3 Aufl.)
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* ''Tanışma günleri/anları: (1989-1995)''. Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1995
* ''Aramızdaki şey''. Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1998 (3 Aufl.)
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* ''Şiirde dün yok mu: Turgut Uyar üzerine yazılar''. Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1999
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* ''Yüzleşmeler : bir uyumsuzun notları, 1995-1999''. Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 2000


; Diaries
; Diaries


* ''Gündökümü 75: günlük''. ̇Istanbul: Koza Yayınları, 1976
* ''Gündökümü 75'' (Dayscript 75) – 1976
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* ''Sesler, yüzler, sokaklar'' (Voices, Faces, Streets) – 1981
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* ''Gündökümü (1975-1980): bir uyumsuzun notları''. İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1990
* ''Günlerin tortusu (1980-1984): bir uyumsuzun notları.'' Istanbul, Ada Yayınları, 1985
* ''Günlerin tortusu (1980–1984): bir uyumsuzun notları'' (Sediment of the Days – Notes of a Misfit) – 1985
* ''Yazılı günler (1985-1988)''. Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 1989
* ''Yazılı günler (1985–1988)'' (Written days) – 1989
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* ''Tanışma günleri / anları: (1989–1995)'' (Meeting days / moments) – 1995
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* ''Yüzleşmeler: bir uyumsuzun notları, 1995–1999'' (Confrontations: Notes of a Misfit) – 2000

; Compilations

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* ''Gündökümü (1975–1980): bir uyumsuzun notları'' (Dayscript – Notes of a Misfit) – 1990
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* ''Rus ruleti'' (Russian Roulette) – 1985
* ''İki yaka iki uç'' (Two Sides Two Ends: Short Stories) – 1992


== Bibliography ==
== Bibliography ==
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== References ==
== References ==

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[[Category:Deaths from throat cancer in Turkey]]
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[[Category:20th-century Turkish women writers]]
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Latest revision as of 05:03, 8 November 2024

Tomris Uyar
Born
Tomris Gedik

(1941-03-15)15 March 1941
Istanbul, Turkey
Died4 July 2003(2003-07-04) (aged 62)
Istanbul, Turkey
Resting placeZincirlikuyu Cemetery, Istanbul
Occupation(s)Writer, translator
PartnerCemal Süreya (1964–1967)

Tomris Uyar (15 March 1941 – 4 July 2003) was a Turkish writer and translator. She was born in Istanbul, the daughter of two lawyers and granddaughter of Republican People's Party politician Süleyman Sırrı Gedik.[1] She was educated at the British Girls' Secondary School and at Arnavutköy American Girls' College, now called Robert College (1961). She graduated from the Journalism Institute affiliated to the Faculty of Economics of Istanbul University (1963).

The grave of the author, who died in 2003 due to esophageal cancer, is in Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı.

Life and career

[edit]

Uyar, who is one of the founders of Papirüs magazine together with Cemal Süreya and Ülkü Tamer, has published her essays, criticisms and book introductions in magazines such as Yeni Dergi, and Varlık.[2] She won the Sait Faik Story Award in 1979 with Yürekte Bukağı and in 1986 with Journey to Summer from her ten short story collections. Uyar's diaries, of which more than 60 translations have been published, have been published under the general title of "Gündökümü".

Completing her undergraduate study at İstanbul University at the Department of Journal, she continued her writing career with translation, stories and articles in various journals.[3] In her own writings, Tomris Uyar used the techniques of “interior monologue-dialogue” and “stream of consciousness”, and made experimental innovations. By using stream of consciousness, she not only reflected the inner worlds of their characters but also worked on thefluency by omitting certain punctuation marks to catch her readers’ attention.

Uyar was a prolific writer of short stories, of which eleven volumes were published.[4] She translated into Turkish works by authors including Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Lewis Carroll, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Gabriel García Márquez.

In 1975 she and her husband Turgut Uyar won a Turkish Language Society (Türk Dil Kurumu) prize for their translation of Lucretius' natural encyclopedia De rerum natura (Evrenin yapısı, Istanbul 1974). In 1980 and 1987 she was one of two Turkish authors who were awarded the Sait Faik Short Story Award. In 1987 she received the Theater Art Development Foundation's annual award in memory of actor Avni Dilligil, and in 2002 the Dünya award for the best narrative volume of the year. In the same year she was awarded the Sedat Simavi Literature Award.

Private life

[edit]

The marriage of Tomris Uyar, who made his first marriage to the poet Ülkü Tamer in 1963, ended in 1964 after their daughter Ekin was drowned in milk. Tomris Uyar married the poet Turgut Uyar in 1969 and they had a son named Hayri Turgut Uyar. Hayri Turgut Uyar is now a lecturer at ITÜ(Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi).

Edip Cansever is also in love with Tomris Uyar, who was in love with Cemal Süreya while he was married. In fact, at a raki table where he sat alone with Tomris, Cansever wrote on a napkin, "Tomris used to love rakı, and I used to love her..."[5]

Tribute

[edit]

In 2020, Google celebrated her with a Google Doodle.[6]

Selected works

[edit]
Short stories and other writings
  • İpek ve bakır (Silk and Copper) – 1971
  • Ödeşmeler (Paybacks) – 1973
  • Dizboyu papatyalar (Kneehigh Daisies) – 1975
  • Yürekte bukağı (Heartbreak) – 1979, winner of the 1980 Sait Faik prize
  • Yaz düşleri / Düş kışları (Summer Dreams / Dream Winters) – 1981
  • Gecegezen kızlar (Girls Wandering at Night) – 1983
  • Yaza yolculuk (Journey to Summer) – 1985, winner of the 1986 Sait Faik prize
  • Sekizinci günah (The Eighth Sin) – 1990
  • Otuzların kadını (Woman of the Thirties) – 1992
  • Aramızdaki şey (What is between us) – 1998
  • Şiirde dün yok mu: Turgut Uyar üzerine yazılar (No yesterday in poetry? Articles on Turgut Uyar) – 1999
Diaries
  • Gündökümü 75 (Dayscript 75) – 1976
  • Sesler, yüzler, sokaklar (Voices, Faces, Streets) – 1981
  • Günlerin tortusu (1980–1984): bir uyumsuzun notları (Sediment of the Days – Notes of a Misfit) – 1985
  • Yazılı günler (1985–1988) (Written days) – 1989
  • Tanışma günleri / anları: (1989–1995) (Meeting days / moments) – 1995
  • Yüzleşmeler: bir uyumsuzun notları, 1995–1999 (Confrontations: Notes of a Misfit) – 2000
Compilations
  • Gündökümü (1975–1980): bir uyumsuzun notları (Dayscript – Notes of a Misfit) – 1990
  • Rus ruleti (Russian Roulette) – 1985
  • İki yaka iki uç (Two Sides Two Ends: Short Stories) – 1992

Bibliography

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  • Tayfun Demir: Türkische Literatur in deutscher Sprache. Eine Bibliographie mit Erläuterungen. Sekretariat für gemeinsame Kulturarbeit in NRW, Duisburg 1995, ISBN 3-89279-510-X, S. 80. (German)
  • Luis Mitler: Contemporary Turkish writers. A critical bio-bibliography of leading writers in the Turkish Republican period up to 1980. Indiana University Press, Bloomington (Indiana) 1988, ISBN 0-933070-14-4, S. 259.

References

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  1. ^ Arslanbenzer, Hakan (23 January 2016). "Tomris Uyar: A minimalist and humanist writer". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  2. ^ Hayriye Müge Gür (2015). An analysis of two translations of Mrs. Dalloway into Turkish (MA thesis). Doğuş University. p. 10.
  3. ^ Horst, Johanna-Charlotte (12 September 2023), "Virginia Woolfs Atomismus", Trouble Every Day, Brill | Fink, pp. 107–120, doi:10.30965/9783846767214_007, ISBN 978-3-8467-6721-4, retrieved 19 April 2024
  4. ^ "Türkische Literatur – Tomris Uyar". 1 February 2009. Archived from the original on 1 February 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  5. ^ Aksucu, İlayda (20 September 2020). "Dört Büyük Şair ve Paylaşılamayan Bir Kadın: Tomris Uyar". Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Celebrating Tomris Uyar". Google. 11 May 2020.
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