Yılmaz Onay

Who is Yılmaz Onay?

Yılmaz Onay is a Turkish author, theatre director and translator.

He translated plays, which most of them are known plays of Bertolt Brecht, stories, novels, books of poems and non-fiction books from German to Turkish and write plays and novels; all published. As a director, he staged most of Brecht’s works, in a theatre called Epic Theatre which he was one of the frontiers of this theatre movement in Turkey. Onay’s first accomplishment as director was, staging a known play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich written by Brecht.