Bir kediyle uyumamış ya da bir köpekle dostluk kurmamış yazar yoktur neredeyse! Bu kitap çağdaş edebiyatımızın yaşayan kıymetli on yazarının hayvanlarla olan ilişkisini okurla buluşturuyor. Faruk Duman, İnci Aral, Haydar Ergülen, Buket Uzuner, Doğu Yücel, Sevin Okyay, Neslihan Önderoğlu, Haldun Çubukçu ve Murat Batmankaya mektuptan öyküye, denemeden anlatıya uzanan metinlerle hayvanlarla dostluklarını büyük bir içtenlikle paylaşıyor. Kitabın ikinci bölümünde ise, Neyzen Tevfik’in bir yerlere gitmeyen Mernuş’undan Nâzım’ın köpeği Şeytan’a, Nurullah Ataç’ın kedi dostluğundan, Tevfik Fikret’in Zerrişte’sine, Bilge Karasu’nun filozof kedilerinden, Fikret Otyam’ın çalınan keçisi Nimetçik’e kadar uzanan yelpazede yazarların hayvanlarla ilişkilerinden doğan ilginç olayları, anekdotları ve izdüşümler sizi bekliyor.
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Buket Uzuner (born 3 October 1955, Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish writer, author of novels, short stories and travelogues. Travel Literature She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages, including Spanish, English, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Korean, and Bulgarian. Buket Uzuner travels as "solo woman backpacker" since 1980s including "inter-rail" tours in Europe and in three other continents while keep writing her travel memoirs. Her first travelogue The Travel Notes of A Brunette was published in 1988 and sold more than 300.000 copies. Uzuner wrote two more travel books as Travel Notes of An Urban Romantic which questions the meaning of exoticism and New York Logbook which are all collected lately in Travel Library of Buket Uzuner In 2013 her novel İstanbullular is published in USA by Dalkey Archive Press with the title of I Am Istanbul translated into English by Kenneth J. Dakan She is also celebrating in 2013 the 22nd year's anniversary of her first novel İki Yeşil Susamuru, Anneleri, Babaları, Sevgilileri ve Diğerleri (Two Green Otters, Mothers, Fathers, Lovers and All the Others) translated by Alex Dawe with its 50th edition which sold over 1 million copies in Turkey and already a contemporary classic. Uzuner's books have been on the Turkish best-seller lists since 1992. They are taught in a number of Turkish universities and high schools.[1][2] In 1993, Buket Uzuner was awarded Turkey's Yunus Nadi prize for the novel The Sound of Fishsteps, and in 1998 Mediterranean Waltz was named novel of the year by the University of Istanbul. She was made an honorary member of the International Writing Program, IWP of University of Iowa in 1996. She was also honored with a certificate of appreciation from the Senate of Middle East Technical University; METU in 2004. She has referred to Turkish poet and novelist Attilâ İlhan, and Cervantes, Dostoyevski, Doris Lessing, Turkish woman writer Sevgi Soysal as major influences on her work.
İnci Aral, Türk öykü ve roman yazarı. 1944 yılında Denizli'de doğdu. Ankara'da Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü Resim Bölümü'nü bitirdi. Altı öykü kitabı, altı romanı yayımlanmıştır. Yazar, 1992 yılında Ölü Erkek Kuşlar adlı romanı ile Yunus Nadi Ödülü'nü kazandı, 2002 yılında yayınlanan romanı Mor ile de Orhan Kemal Roman Armağanı'nı aldı. 1994'te yayımladığı Yeni Yalan Zamanlar, 2002'de yayımlanan Mor ve 2007'de yayımlanan Safran Sarı romanını Yeni Yalan Zamanlar başlıklı bir üçleme haline getirdi. Eserleri Öykü ■Ağda Zamanı (1980) ■Kıran Resimleri (1983) ■Uykusuzlar (1984) ■Sevginin Eşsiz Kışı (1986) ■Gölgede Kırk Derece (2003) ■Anlar İzler Tutkular (2003) ■Ruhumu Öpmeyi Unuttun (2006) ■Unutmak (2008) Roman ■Ölü Erkek Kuşlar (1992) – Yunus Nadi Ödülü ■Yeni Yalan Zamanlar (1994) ■Hiçbir Aşk Hiçbir Ölüm (1997) ■İçimden Kuşlar Göçüyor (1998) ■Mor (2002) – Orhan Kemal Roman Armağanı ■Taş ve Ten (2005) ■Safran Sarı (2007) ■Sadakat (2010) ■Şarkını Söylediğin Zaman (2011)
Sevin Okyay (Istanbul, 1942) is a Turkish literary critic, journalist, author, regular columnist and a prolific translator. Sevin had been a radio host and a teacher as well. She is a graduate of the Arnavutköy American Girl's (High) School. During her youth she worked with Yildiz Moran, the first formally educated female photographer in Turkey. Okyay is best known for translating the Harry Potter books, and for her positive and appreciative criticism in Radikal, a Turkish newspaper. Her son, Kutlukhan Kutlu, is also following his mother's footsteps and is accompanying her in translating the Harry Potter series. Okyay has been translating since 1963. She started working as a journalist in 1976. She writes mainly about cinema, literature, jazz and sports. She is hailed as a milestone of modern translation in Turkey. She used to have two cats who were twins, named after the Weasley twins. A serious jazz aficionado, she was the host of a radio show in Turkey, and her playlist included mainly jazz standards. Wikipedia
Haydar Ergulen is one of the important poets of the recent generation in contemporary Turkish literature. Born in 1956 in Eskişehir, Türkeli, he graduated from the Sociology Department at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Middle East Technical University) in Ankara. Among his published poetry books are: "Sokak Prensesi" (Street Princess/1991), "Eskiden Terzi" (Once a Tailor), "40 Şiir ve Bir" (40 Poems and One/1997), "Karton Valiz" (Cardboard Suitcase/1999). With "40 Poems and One", Ergulen won the prestigious 1997 "Behçet Necatigil Poetry Award" as well as the "Orhon Murat Arıburna Poetry Award". His "Once a Tailor" brought him the 1996 "Halil Kocagoz Poetry Award". For some of his books, he used the pen name "Hafız".
