Yusuf Atılgan

Yusuf ATILGAN (* June 27, 1921 in Manisa, † October 9, 1989 in Istanbul) was a Turkish writer.

Life

Yusuf Ziya Atilgan's father was in Manisa, a tax official, whose family had to move in 1878 from Thessaly. When it was destroyed during the Greek -Turkish War Manisa by the Greeks, the family moved to the nearby village Hacırahmanlı and business agriculture. ATILGAN in Manisa attended the middle school and then went for a high school in a boarding school in Balıkesir. He studied to become a teacher, literature in Istanbul at the İstanbul Üniversitesi and because he lacked a scholarship at the teacher training college of the army. The strongest influence while studying left with him Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.

In the army he worked in 1945 for a year with enthusiasm as a teacher at the military academy " Maltepe Asker Lisesi " in Akşehir. But he was accused of being a Communist, was sentenced by a military court to six months in prison and dismissed from the army. ATILGAN then retired to the country. After fruitless attempts in agriculture, he made several attempts to write a novel that would be no village novel, published in 1958 and the loafers ( " aylak Adam "). The novel Anayurt Oteli he published in 1973 after an 8 -year hiatus. In 1976 he went to Istanbul, where he worked for various publishers as a translator and editor, which helped him Ülkü Tamer to orders from the publishing house Milliyet and Karacan.

His conception of realism in literature he put it:

In 1958 he received a second prize for " aylak Adam " at the " Yunus Nadi Prize". For " Bodur Minar Öte Eden " (1960) he received the " Sait Faik - Prize".

With his second wife Serpil, whom he had married in 1976, he had a son Mehmet, who was born 1979.

Film

" Anayurt Oteli " was filmed in 1986 by Ömer Kavur, awarded at the International Istanbul Film Festival and in 1987 received at the International Film Festival in Venice the European FIPRESCI Prize.

Works

• The loafers. From the Turk. by Antje Bauer. Afterword by Yüksel Pazarkaya. Zurich: . Verl Union, 2007 ISBN 978-3-293-10008-4. ( Aylak Adam )
• Hotel home to Aus d Turk. by Hanne Egghardt. Hamburg: Gallows Hill, 1985, ISBN 3-925387-05-6. ( Anayurt Oteli )
• Canistan (tr), posthumous 2000.

Secondary literature

• Mirko Gemmel: loafer, slacker and flaneur - Yusuf Atilgan ' loafers ' and kindred figures of German literature. In: Studies in German language and literature, Issue 25, Istanbul 1/2011, pp. 71-85