Tomris Uyar
Tomris Uyar | |
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| Born | March 15, 1941 |
| Died | July 4, 2003 (aged 62) Istanbul, Turkey |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, journalist, translator |
| Spouse(s) | Ülkü Tamer (div.) |
| Children | 2 |
Tomris Uyar (15 March 1941 – 4 July 2003) was a Turkish writer.
Life and career
Uyar was born Rana Tomris Gedik in Istanbul the daughter of two lawyers and granddaughter of Republican People's Party politician Süleyman Sırrı Gedik.[1] She graduated in journalism in 1963 and lived in Istanbul as a freelance writer and translator. From the mid-1960s she published stories, diaries, translations and literary criticism.
Uyar was a prolific writer of short stories, of which eleven volumes were published.[2] She translated into Turkish works in English, French and German by authors including Virginia Woolf, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Gabriel García Márquez.Tomris Uyar was amongst a group of poets that brought existentialism and surrealism to Turkish literature. She was an active opponent of the Vietnam War.
In 1975 she and her her husband Turgut Uyar won a Turkish Language Society (Türk Dil Kurumu) prize for their 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. In 1987 she received the "Avni Dilligil" theater award, and in 2002 the Dünya magazine award for the best narrative volume of the year. In the same year she was awarded the Sedat Simavi Prize for Literature.
Selected works
- Short stories and other writings
- İpek ve bakır. Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi, 1971 (5 Aufl.)
- Ödeşmeler. İstanbul: Sinan Yayınları, 1973 (3 Aufl.)
- Dizboyu papatyalar. İstanbul: Okar Yayınları, 1975 (5 Aufl)
- Yürekte bukağı: öyküler. İstanbul: Okar Yayınları, 1979 (4 Aufl.), ausgezeichnet mit dem Sait-Faik-Erzählpreis für 1980
- Sesler, yüzler, sokaklar. Istanbul: Hür, 1981
- Yaz düşleri / Düş kışları: öyküler. İstanbul: Ada Yayınları, 1981 (3 Aufl.)
- Diz boyu papatyalar. İstanbul: Adam Yayıncılık, 1982
- Gece gezen kızlar: öyküler. İstanbul: Ada Yayınları, 1983 (3 Aufl.)
- Rus ruleti. İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1985
- Yaza yolculuk: öyküler. İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1986 (4 Aufl.), ausgezeichnet mit dem Sait-Faik-Erzählpreis für 1987
- Sekizinci günah. Cağaloğlu, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1990 (2 Aufl.)
- İki yaka iki uç: öyküler. Istanbul: Gendaş Yayınları, 1992
- Otuzların kadını. Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 1992 (3 Aufl.)
- Tanışma günleri/anları: (1989-1995). Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1995
- Aramızdaki şey. Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1998 (3 Aufl.)
- Şiirde dün yok mu: Turgut Uyar üzerine yazılar. Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1999
- Yüzleşmeler : bir uyumsuzun notları, 1995-1999. Galatasaray, İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 2000
- Diaries
- Gündökümü 75: günlük. ̇Istanbul: Koza Yayınları, 1976
- Gündökümü (1975-1980): bir uyumsuzun notları. İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 1990
- Günlerin tortusu (1980-1984): bir uyumsuzun notları. Istanbul, Ada Yayınları, 1985
- Yazılı günler (1985-1988). Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 1989
Bibliography
- 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
- ^ Arslanbenzer, Hakan (2016-01-23). "Tomris Uyar: A minimalist and humanist writer". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
- ^ "Türkische Literatur - Tomris Uyar". web.archive.org. 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
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