Yaşar Kemal

Yaşar Kemal was a leading Kurdish writer and human rights activist from Turkey. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize... Wikipedia

• Born:  Kemal Sadık Gökçeli, October 6, 1923, Gökçedam, Osmaniye, Turkey
• Age at death:  91 years
• Died:  February 28, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
• Occupation:  Novelist
• Period:  1943–2002
• Notable works:  Ağıtlar ("Ballads", debut), İnce Memed ("Memed, My Hawk"), Teneke ("The Drumming-Out"), Ince Memed II ("They Burn the Thistles")
• Notable awards:  Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, 1979, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, 1982, Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur de France, 1984, Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, 1997, Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur de France, 2011
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