İbrahim Yıldırım

Roman Yazarı, Öykü Yazarı, Yazar

Doğum
23 Şubat, 1950
Eğitim
İstanbul University Faculty of Economics
Burç
Diğer İsimler
İbrahim Yusuf

Storywriter and novelist (b. 23 February 1950, İstanbul). He also wrote under the pen name İbrahim Yusuf. He graduated from Atatürk High School for Boys and İstanbul University, Faculty of Economics. He has worked as a banker and copywriter in İstanbul.

His poems, essays and stories have been published in reviews such as Varlık, Oluşum, Cumhuriyet Kitap, Günümüzde Kitaplar and Çerçeve since 1978. He prepared two columns for five and six years respectively in which he introduced old books, the first column was in the review Günümüzde Kitaplar and the second in Cumhuriyet; their names were Bir Zamanlar Bir Kitap and Sarı Yapraklı Kitaplar. He wrote humorous stories under a pen name in the humor magazine Gırgır. He published a selection of stories Yaşasın Edebiyat (Long Live Literature, 1987-92, 4 issues) first with Cengiz Öndersever and then with Metin Celal and Ahmet Önel. His dossier Bıçkın ve Ortahalli (A Rascal and a Man of Moderate Means) was praised at the 1980 Abdi İpekçi Novel competition.

The characters and events in his novels are multileveled. He gives puzzles to be solved by his readers. He has the awareness of an inventive novel and a social and political environment forms the background of his novels. He completed his trilogy Eylül’den Sonra (After September) with his latest novel Bıçkın ve Ortahalli (A Rascal and a Man of Moderate Means). His trilogy started with the novel Kuş Evinin Efendisi (Master of the Bird House) and continued with Yaralı Kalmak (Staying Wounded). These three independent novels that exceed a thousand pages represent the devastation that the 12 September coup d’etat created on society and the traumatic years and cultural climate of the 1980s.

WORKS:

SHORT STORY: Bir Cinayetin Ekonomisi (An Economy of a Murder, 1986), Kaptan Gemide Kaçak Yolcu Var (Captain, there is An Intruder on the Ship, ed. E. Batur, 2002).

NOVEL: Kuş Evinin Efendisi (Master of the Bird House, 2000), Yaralı Kalmak (Staying Wounded, 2001), Bıçkın ve Orta Halli (A Rascal and a Man of Moderate Means, 2003), Hassas Ruhlar Şikayetçi Aşklar (Sensitive Spirits, Annoying Loves, 2004).

ESSAY: Kumcul (Sandy, e-book, 2000).

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