Novelist
and storywriter (b. 5 February 1937, Gündüzbey / Malatya). His real name is
Hasan Hüseyin Karataş. After he attended Gündüzbey Primary School (1950), he
graduated from Malatya Teacher Training School (1957) and Diyarbakır Institute
of Education, Department of Literature (1964). He started teaching at Köprülü
Village Primary School in the province of Çukurca (Hakkari) in 1957. After he
had worked at that school until 1960 and at another village primary school in
Malatya until 1962, he continued teaching Turkish and literature in Elazığ and
at different schools in Malatya (1969-78, 1980-82) and Kastamonu (1978-80). In
1982, while he was a teacher at Malatya Hasan Varol Secondary School, he
retired.
His
work didn’t appear often in reviews. Some of his articles and poems were
published in the reviews Çile (Diyarbakır, 1974) and Aylık (1980-82).
He became famous as a writer with his novel Kıbrıslı (Cypriot, 1970). He
continued his success with new works. His novel Sürgün Öğretmen (Exiled
Teacher) was filmed as Sürgün (Exile) in 1991. The film collected second
prize at the Palermo (Italy) Film Festival and the Taşkent Film Festival in
1992. He is a member of Writers Union of Turkey.
WORKS:
NOVEL:
Kıbrıslı (Cypriot, 1970), Sürgün Öğretmen (Exiled Teacher, 1972), İsyan Eşiği (Threshold of an Uprising,
1976), Ana (Mother, 1981), Bir Şehrin İskeleti (Skeleton of A City,
1983), Çalınan Savaş (Stolen War,
1986), Selahaddin Eyyubi (Selahaddin
Eyyubi, 1994), Yüz Yüz (One Hundred
Faces, 2002).
SHORT
STORY: Suç (Crime, 1974)
ESSAY:
Sürgün'de (In Exile, 1982), İrticanın Anatomisi (Anatomy of
Reaction, 1993)
FABLE: Avrupa Görmüş Maymun (The Monkey That
Saw Europe, 1975).