Storywriter, translator. (b. 24 September 1926, Adana - d. 19 September 2019, Istanbul). He completed primary and secondary school in Adana. He graduated
from Istanbul Pertevniyal High School (1946), Istanbul University, Faculty of
Literature, Department of German Language and Literature (1955). After working
as an assistant in the same department, he went to Germany. Upon his return, he
started to work as German lecturer at IU Foreign Languages Higher School (1960)
and continued this until his retirement.
His artistic life started with a poem published in Varlık magazine (1949). His first story was also published in Varlık magazine (June, 1951). His stories,
reviews and translations were published in journals such as Varlık, Yelken,
Türk Dili, Ataç, Dönem, Yeni Dergi. He
received an award at a story contest of Türk
Dili magazine in 1953. He shared 1965 Sait Faik Story Award
with his work Elbiseciler Çarşısı
(1964) which he shared with M. Özay. He
received the 1988 Story Award of Turkey Writers' Union with his story Köpek İstasyonu (1988). He is also known
with translations from German literature and Franz Kafka.
In the beginning phase, his stories were in order,
traditional and bound with conditions of event, time and place. He tried to
process themes such as loneliness, uneasiness, unhappiness, desperation,
separation and regrets within the traditional story order with a Kafkaesque
expression. He has usually focused on middle income level people, who have no
reactions against the pressure of environment, their ignorance and deprivation
from power to fight and act. These stories have the lowest proportion of
imagination and he used two different languages; one Pure Turkish and the other
one as a more moderate way of Turkish. He moved away from classical story telling in
his book Buhûrumeryem. The individuals in Şipal are usually alone and they are in
a spiritual depression with the effect of this loneliness, also with the impact
of sexual problems. He has successfully worked on this depression in his
stories within different cases.
WORKS:
SHORT STORY: Beyhan (1962), Elbiseciler
Çarşısı (1964), Büyük Yolculuk (1969), Buhûrumeryem (1971),
Köpek İstasyonu (1988).
NOVEL: Demir Köprü (1999).
RESEARCH-ANTHOLOGY: Çağdaş Alman Hikâyesi-1945 ‘ten
Sonra (1962).
He has many translation works. Please look for full list:
İhsan Işık / TEKAA (2006).
REFERENCE: Hikmet Dizdaroğlu / Kâmuran Şipal ve Hikâyeciliği (Hisar, sayı: 12, Aralık 1964), Muhtar Körükçü / Varlık (Ekim 1964), Rauf Mutluay / Yeni Edebiyat (Kasım 1969), Muzaffer Uyguner / Buhûrumeryem (Varlık, sayı: 787, Nisan 1973) - Şipal, Kâmuran (TDE Ansiklopedisi, c. 8, s. 176), İhsan Işık / Yazarlar Sözlüğü (1990, 1998) - Türkiye Yazarlar Ansiklopedisi (2001, 2004) - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007), Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (18. bas. 1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (gen. 6. bas. 1999), Ömer Lekesiz / Yeni Türk Edebiyatında Öykü - 3 (1999), Sezer Ateş Ayvaz / Bir Olgunluk Çağı Yapıtı (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 17.6.1999), Vitrindekiler (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 11.11.1999), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001, s. 772), Yazar ve çevirmen Kamuran Şipal vefat etti (gazeteduvar.com, 18 Eylül 2019, güncelleme 19 Eylül 2019), Edebiyat dünyasından acı haber (odatv.com, 19 Eylül 2019), Usta çevirmen Kamuran Şipal yaşamını yitirdi (sozcu.com.tr, 19 Eylül 2019), Çevirmen ve yazar Kamuran Şipal vefat etti (724kultursanat.com, 19 Eylül 2019), Kamuran Şipal yaşamını yitirdi (yurtgazetesi.com.tr, 19 Eylül 2019), Kamuran Şipal yaşamını yitirdi! (haberturk.com, 20 Eylül 2019), Kamuran Şipal son yolculuğuna uğurlandı (timeturk.com, 20.09.2019), Kâmuran Şipal Vefat Etti (tyb.org.tr, 21 Eylül 2019), Yazar ve çevirmen Kamuran Şipal vefat etti (darussafaka.org, 22 Eylül 2019).
