Bilge Karasu

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Bilge Karasu (9 January 1930 – 13 July 1995), was a Turkish short story writer and novelist.

Biography

Bilge Karasu was born in 1930, in Istanbul.

In 1963, he returned from Europe, where he had studied on a Rockefeller scholarship. In 1964, he started to work as a translator at the General Directorate of Press, Broadcasting, and Tourism and in the foreign broadcasting service of Ankara Radio.^[4]

Karasu wrote radio plays for Ankara Radioı.^[5] He worked as a lecturer at Hacettepe University's Philosophy Department from 1974 until his death.^[6]

He lived in a small basement on Nilgün Street in Ankara for years.^[7] He died on 14 July, 1995, at Hacettepe University Hospital, Ankara where he was being treated for pancreatic cancer. He is buried in Karşıyaka Cemetery.^[8]

Bibliography

Stories

• Troya’da Ölüm Vardı (1963)
• Uzun Sürmüş Bir Günün Akşamı (1970)
• Göçmüş Kediler Bahçesi (1980)
• Kısmet Büfesi (1982)
• Lağımlaranası ya da Beyoğlu
• Susanlar (2008) (öykü, şiir, deneme, röportaj)

Novels

• Gece (1985)
• Kılavuz (1990)

Essays

• Ne Kitapsız Ne Kedisiz (1994)
• Narla İncire Gazel (1995)
• Altı Ay Bir Güz (1996) (ölümünden sonra yayınlandı)

Radio plays

• Peter Pan (Radyo için oyunlaştıran Bilge Karasu) (1967), Ankara Radyosu
• Sevilmek, (Ocak 1970), Ankara Radyosu^[9]
• Kerem ile Kediler, (Mart 1970), Ankara Radyosu
• Gidememek^[10]
• Aşk^[11]

Translations

• Abraham Lincoln, Emil Ludwing, 1953, Cep Kitapları
• Doktor Martino, William Faulkner, 1956, Yenilik Publications
• Bella'nın Ölümü, Georges Simenon, 1981, Karacan Publications
• Salgına İnanıyorum, Jean Cocteau, 1968, Türk Dili (Sinema Ozel Sayısı), Ankara: Volume: 196 (January 1968), p. 422-425
• İşin Özü Bir Öykü Anlatmaktır, Jean Renoir, Türk Dili (Sinema Ozel Sayısı), Ankara: Volume: 196 (January 1968), p. 426-428

Awards

• 1963 Turkish Language Association Translation Award, The Dead Man, translated from D. H. Lawrence

Books written about

• Bilge Karasu Aramızda (1997) (Prepared by: Füsun Akatlı, Müge Gürsoy Sökmen)
• Yazının da Yırtılıverdiği Yer (Bir Bilge Karasu Okuması) (2007); Author: Cem İleri; Metis Publications
• Bilge Karasu'yu Okumak (Prepared by: Doğan Yaşat), Metis Publications, 2013.
• Excavating Memory: Bilge Karasu’s Istanbul and Walter Benjamin’s Berlin (2020); Author: Ülker Gökberk; Academic Studies Press

See also

• MEB 100 Türk edebiyatçısı listesi

References

Wikiquote has quotations related to Bilge Karasu.

• Güzel, Cemal (1996). "Bilge Karasu Kaynakçası". Anadolu Sanat Dergisi. Özel Sayı: Bilge Karasu İçin. Anadolu Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Yayınları.
• "Bilge Karasu". www.felsefe.hacettepe.edu.tr. 10 January 2015. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
• "Dosya: Bilge Karasu". Teorik Bakış Dergisi. 1. Sel Yayınları: 160. 2013.

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