Story and novel author,
poet. He was born in Salihli / Manisa in 1951. He went to school and learned
literacy. He worked at several jobs in Turkey. He went to the Germany in 1972
workers’ migration. After working at different places, he has established his
own work. He wrote stories, novels and poems. Several of his books were
published in Turkey and Germany.
Habib Bektaş has
examined the tragic stories of the people who went to Germany for employment
and stuck in the boundaries of their small world and the depressed people
inside the loneliness of the world they are alien with in some novels and
stories. He had a warm and sincere approach to Guest Workers and he also has
successfully mentioned the problems and depressions of Germans who were judgmental
to the guest workers.
He received the 1990
Milliyet Publishers Novel Prize with his novel Hamriyanım; 1997 Inkilap Publishers Novel Prize with his novel Gölge Kokusu; and the 2000 Linguistic
Association Ömer Asım Aksoy Prize with his novel Cennetin Arka Bahçesi. His novel named Eylül Fırtınası was directed as a film by Atıf Yılmaz.
WORKS:
NOVEL: Hamriyanım (1990), Bana Bir Şiir Oku (1990), Gölge Kokusu (1997), Cennetin Arka Bahçesi (1999).
STORY: Ben Öykülere İnanırım (2001).
POETRY: Erlangen Şiirleri.
OTHER WORKS: Kapıkule Nerede, Adresinde Yoktur, Yorgun
Ölü, Uyuşturucu Batağı, Söz’ü Yurt Edindim, Belagerungs des Lebens,
Reden die Sterne?, Mein Freund der Opabaum (1997), Das Vergessene
Waschsen, Das Landerspiel.
REFERENCE: Vitrindekiler / Bana Bir Şiir Oku (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 1.7.1999), Sennur Sezer / Habib Bektaş’la ‘Cennetin Arka Bahçesi’nde
(Cumhuriyet Kitap, 29.7.1999), Cennetin
Arka Bahçesi (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 23.9.1999), Feridun Andaç / Edebiyatımızın Yol Haritası (2000), TBE Ansiklopedisi (vol.1, 2001), İhsan
Işık (TEKAA, 2009).
