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Yaşar Kemal
Novelist, Author
1923 –
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Who is Yaşar Kemal?
Yaşar Kemal, is a Kurdish writer. He is one of Turkey's leading writers. He has long been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, on the strength of Memed, My Hawk.
As an outspoken intellectual, he does not hesitate to speak on sensitive issues. His activism resulted in a twenty-month suspended jail sentence, on charges of advocating separatism.
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- Born
- Oct 6, 1923
Gökçedam - Also known as
- Yasar Kemal
- Kemal Sadık Gökçeli
- Kemal Sadik Gögceli
- Parents
- Spouses
- Thilda Serrero
(1952 - 2001/01/17) - Ayşe Semiha Baban
(2002/08/01 - )
- Thilda Serrero
- Children
- Nationality
- Turkey
- Profession
- Lived in
- Adana
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on July 23, 2013
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