Hüseyin Karatay

Roman Yazarı, Öykü Yazarı

Doğum
05 Şubat, 1937
Eğitim
Malatya Teacher Training School, Diyarbakır Institute of Education Department of Literature
Burç
Diğer İsimler
Hasan Hüseyin Karataş

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).

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