Full Name Adalet Sumer Occupation Novelist, playwright Parents Hafiz Mustafa Sumer Alma mater Ankara University Spouse Halim Agaoglu (m. 1954) | Ethnicity Turkish Role Novelist Nationality Turkish Name Adalet Agaoglu | |
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Born 1929 (age 85–86) Nallihan, Ankara Province, Turkey Books Bir Dugun Gecesi, Fikrimin Ince Gulu, Ruh Usumesi Awards Sedat Simavi Award for Literature Similar People Sevgi Soysal, Latife Tekin, Aziz Nesin, Furuzan, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar | ||
Education Ankara University (1950) | ||
Ar i v odasi adalet a ao lu 1993 bbc t rk e
Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer in 1929) is a Turkish novelist and playwright. She is considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Turkish literature. She has also written essays, memoirs, and short stories.
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- Ar i v odasi adalet a ao lu 1993 bbc t rk e
- Adalet a ao lu ntv s yle i
- Early life
- Publishing career
- Theatre and radio drama
- Novels
- References
Adalet a ao lu ntv s yle i
Early life
She was born in Nallıhan, Ankara Province in 1929.
Publishing career
As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey. Considered to be one of the most important living authors in Turkey a revered intellectual, her tightly constructed prose is a balance between a realistic millieu of Turkey which she knows firsthand and the broader, more humanistic elements of social pressure and gender prejudice. In an unfamiliar urban world, her fictional newcomers to modernity struggle with age-old issues complicated by perplexing political, religious, economic and social forces.
She has been rewarded with numerous honors besides the literary awards she won in the fields of novel, short story and drama. For her perception of subtle and overt changes in modern Turkish society and her writing entitled "Modernism and Social Change", Adalet Ağaoğlu received the "Turkish Presidency Merit Award" in 1995. In 1998, Ağaoğlu received "Honorary Ph.D." from Anadolu University followed by the "Ph.D. of Humane Letters" from the Ohio State University.
Theatre and radio drama
