Writer Adalet Ağaoğlu loses her life
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Prominent writer Adalet Ağaoğlu lost her life at the age of 90 today (July 14). While she had been treated in intensive care for some time, literary critic and publisher Semih Gümüş has announced her passing in a tweet:
"We have lost Adalet Ağaoğlu this morning. She was one of the most important writers of our literature. Her novels were very special.
"I wrote two small books on her two novels without knowing her personally. Then, we met. We talked a lot. Her spouse, elder brother Halim, in the picture was also a special person. It is all so sad."
Adalet Ağaoğlu'nu bu sabah kaybetmişiz. Edebiyatımızın en önemli yazarlarındandı. Romanları çok özeldi. Onu hiç tanımadan iki romanı hakkında iki küçük kitap yazmıştım. Sonra tanıştık. Çok konuştuk. Bu fotoğraftaki eşi Halim Ağbi de ayrıca özel bir insandı. Her şey çok üzücü. pic.twitter.com/bGNuq9YArB
— Se. (@semihgumus) July 14, 2020
About Adalet AğaoğluAdalet Ağaoğlu was a novelist and playwright from Turkey. She is considered one of the foremost novelists of Turkey's 20th-century literature. She also wrote essays, memoirs, and short stories. She was born in Nallıhan, Ankara on October 23, 1929. As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey. Considered to be one of the most important living authors in Turkey a revered intellectual, her tightly constructed prose is a balance between a realistic milieu of Turkey which she knows firsthand and the broader, more humanistic elements of social pressure and gender prejudice. In an unfamiliar urban world, her fictional newcomers to modernity struggle with age-old issues complicated by perplexing political, religious, economic and social forces. She was rewarded with numerous honors besides the literary awards she won in the fields of novel, short story and drama. For her perception of subtle and overt changes in Turkey's modern society and her writing entitled "Modernism and Social Change", Adalet Ağaoğlu received the "Turkish Presidency Merit Award" in 1995. In 1998, Ağaoğlu received "Honorary Ph.D." from Anadolu University followed by the "Ph.D. of Humane Letters" from the Ohio State University. She was among the founders of the Human Rights Association (İHD), which was established in 1986. She left the İHD in July 2005. In 2010, she donated her all books to Boğaziçi University in İstanbul. Her archive has been preserved in a room in Boğaziçi University Library. The room was designed in control of the late writer. Adalet Ağaoğlu Research Center has also been established within the body of the university. Ağaoğlu was given an Honorary PhD by Boğaziçi University in 2018. * Source: Wikipedia |
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