Buket Uzuner (Author of Kumral Ada Mavi Tuna)

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Buket Uzuner

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October 03, 1955

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Buket Uzuner (born 3 October 1955, Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish writer, author of novels, short stories and travelogues. Travel Literature She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages, including Spanish, English, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Korean, and Bulgarian.

Buket Uzuner travels as "solo woman backpacker" since 1980s including "inter-rail" tours in Europe and in three other continents while keep writing her travel memoirs. Her first travelogue The Travel Notes of A Brunette was published in 1988 and sold more than 300.000 copies. Uzuner wrote two more travel book Buket Uzuner (born 3 October 1955, Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish writer, author of novels, short stories and travelogues. Travel Literature She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages, including Spanish, English, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Korean, and Bulgarian.

Buket Uzuner travels as "solo woman backpacker" since 1980s including "inter-rail" tours in Europe and in three other continents while keep writing her travel memoirs. Her first travelogue The Travel Notes of A Brunette was published in 1988 and sold more than 300.000 copies. Uzuner wrote two more travel books as Travel Notes of An Urban Romantic which questions the meaning of exoticism and New York Logbook which are all collected lately in Travel Library of Buket Uzuner

In 2013 her novel 陌蝉迟补苍产耻濒濒耻濒补谤 is published in USA by Dalkey Archive Press with the title of I Am Istanbul translated into English by Kenneth J. Dakan She is also celebrating in 2013 the 22nd year's anniversary of her first novel 陌ki Ye艧il Susamuru, Anneleri, Babalar谋, Sevgilileri ve Di臒erleri (Two Green Otters, Mothers, Fathers, Lovers and All the Others) translated by Alex Dawe with its 50th edition which sold over 1 million copies in Turkey and already a contemporary classic.

Uzuner's books have been on the Turkish best-seller lists since 1992. They are taught in a number of Turkish universities and high schools.[1][2]

In 1993, Buket Uzuner was awarded Turkey's Yunus Nadi prize for the novel The Sound of Fishsteps, and in 1998 Mediterranean Waltz was named novel of the year by the University of Istanbul. She was made an honorary member of the International Writing Program, IWP of University of Iowa in 1996. She was also honored with a certificate of appreciation from the Senate of Middle East Technical University; METU in 2004.

She has referred to Turkish poet and novelist Attil芒陌lhan, and Cervantes, Dostoyevski, Doris Lessing, Turkish woman writer Sevgi Soysal as major influences on her work. ...more

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	Kumral Ada Mavi Tuna 4.08 avg rating — 4,994 ratings — published 1991 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uzun Beyaz Bulut Gelibolu 3.85 avg rating — 2,858 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	陌ki Ye艧il Susamuru 3.73 avg rating — 2,720 ratings — published 1991 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Su 3.52 avg rating — 1,886 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toprak 3.86 avg rating — 929 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	陌蝉迟补苍产耻濒濒耻濒补谤 3.46 avg rating — 912 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hava 3.72 avg rating — 574 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bal谋k 陌zlerinin Sesi 3.36 avg rating — 565 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ay谋n En 脟谋plak G眉n眉 3.51 avg rating — 355 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yolda by Buket Uzuner, N/A (Editor) 3.66 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“陌莽inde nefret bile olsa al谋艧kanl谋k ya da ba臒谋ml谋l谋k yaratan her ili艧ki biraz a艧kt谋r.”
― Buket Uzuner, Kumral Ada Mavi Tuna

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“B眉y眉k bir h眉rriyet, tabii b眉y眉k bir yaln谋zl谋kt谋r.”
― Buket Uzuner, Kumral Ada Mavi Tuna

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“Birisini sevmekle gelen o inan谋lmaz ho艧g枚r眉n眉n g眉c眉 azald谋臒谋nda, ayr谋nt谋lar bile batar insana.”
― Buket Uzuner, Kumral Ada Mavi Tuna

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Oldtimer - Klasik Okuma Grubu - May谋s 2018 脰yk眉 Kitaplar谋 Anketi

May谋s 2018'de a艧a臒谋daki 枚yk眉 kitaplar谋ndan hangisini okuyal谋m?

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Anton Chekhov - Doktor 脟ehov'dan 脰yk眉ler1884, 209 sayfa

7 votes 14.6%

Claire Keegan - Mavi Tarlalardan Y眉r眉, 2007, 168 sayfa

6 votes 12.5%

Giovanni Papini - D眉艧sel Kon莽erto - Cilt 1, 1954, 667 sayfa

6 votes 12.5%

贵眉谤耻锄补苍 - Paras谋z Yat谋l谋, 1971, 169 sayfa

4 votes 8.3%

Oscar Wilde - Lord Arthur Savile'in Su莽u, 1891, 119 sayfa

4 votes 8.3%

Adam Johnson - George Orwell Arkada艧谋md谋, 2015, 260 sayfa

2 votes 4.2%

Buket Uzuner - Ay谋n En 脟谋plak G眉n眉, 1989, 138 sayfa

2 votes 4.2%

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqu茅 - Undine, 1811, 112 sayfa

1 vote 2.1%

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