Ali Haydar Haksal

Story Writer, Writer

Birth
16 May, 1951
Education
Erzurum Atatürk University Faculty of Literature Department of Turkish
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Other Names
Yasir Vurgun, Mahmut Mustafaoğlu

Storywriter (b. 16 May 1951, Hasköy / Kiğı / Bingöl). In some of his works, he has used Vurgun and Mahmut Mustafaoğlu as pen names. He is a grandchild of the lecturer İsmail Hakkı Efendi. He attended Hasköy Primary School (Kiğı) and graduated from Elazığ İmam Hatip High School (1975) and Erzurum Atatürk University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Turkish (1979). He worked in farming in his village and was a businessman in İstanbul. He has served as the Provincial Chairman of the Virtue Party and as a counselor to the Mayor of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality. He is a member of the Independent Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association.

His first short story Tıkırtı (Click) was published in Millî Gazete in 1975. In the following years, his stories and articles were published in the reviews and newspapers Yeni Devir (1979), Millî Gazete (1980-86), Düşünce, Mavera (1980-86), Yedi İklim, Yönelişler. He still works as the publishing advisor, chief editor and owner of the review Yedi İklim. In 1987, he won the Storywriter of the Year Award held by the Writers Union of Turkey with his work Sesim Bana Yetmiyor (My Voice is Not Enough for Me) and received second rank at the Tuzla Municipality Novel Contest with Yitik Yaşamın Güncesi (Diary of a Lost Life).

WORKS:

SHORT STORY: Evdeki Yabancı (The Foreigner at Home, 1986), Sesim Bana Yetmiyor (My Voice Is Not Enough for Me, 1987), Sarıldığım Soğuk Bir Ceset (A Cold Corpse That I Embraced, 1988), Sokağın Adı Issız (The Name of the Street: Desolate, 1989), Ay Işığında Vav'ın Odası (Vav’s Room in The Moonlight, 1991), Zamanların Öyküsü (Tale of the Times, 1994), Yalnızlık Sarkacı (The Lonely Pendulum, 1996), Kuşkonmazda Konuşan Adam (The Man Talking in Asparagus, 1998), İçim Su Berraklığında (I Am in the Clearness Of Water, 2001), Kapıda Bir Çift Ayakkabı (A Pair of Shoes at The Door, 2001). 

MEMOIR-ESSAY: Gelişi Güzel (Haphazard, 1988).

NOVEL: Yitik Yaşamın Güncesi (The Dairy of the Lost Life, 2000).

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