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B O O K S F R O M T U R K E Y
B E H İ Ç A K
YAZAR YÜKSEK TANSİYONLU ÇINAR AĞACI
THE PLANE TREE THAT HAD HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
Schulbuchverlag Anadolu, Germany, 2007
Behiç Ak was born in 1956; he is a cartoonist, writer of children’s books, playwright
and documentary filmmaker. Behiç Ak studied architecture at Yıldız University and
Istanbul Technical University. His children’s books have been published in Turkey,
Japan and Korea and his cartoon strip books have been published in Turkey and
Germany. His cartoons have been exhibited in many cities in Turkey, as well as in
Holland, Germany and Sweden. Ak’s plays have been staged in many theatres both at
home and abroad. His 1994 documentary film, “the History of Censorship in Turkish
cinema - Black Curtain,’’ won the Best Documentary award, in the same year, at the
Ankara Film Festival. Many of his works have been translated into German.
WORKS: Plays: Fay hattı ( Fault Line), Tek Kişilik Şehir (One Person City), Bina
(Building), Ayrılık (Separation), Hastane (Hospital), İmaj Katili (The Image Murderer),
Newton Bilgisayardan Ne Anlar (What Would Newton Know about Computers ?),
Benim Küçük Global Köyüm (My Little Global Village), İki Çarpı İki (Two Times
Two), Children’s Books: Yüksek Tansiyonlu Çınar Ağacı (The Plane Tree That Had
High Blood Pressure), Gökdelene Giren Bulut (The Cloud That Floated into the
Skyscraper), Büyükannem ve Miyop Ejderha (My Grandma and the Short-sighted
Dragon), Uyurgezer Bir Fil (A Sleepwalking Elephant), Rüzgârın Üzerindeki Şehir (The
City Above the Wind), Kedi Adası (Cat Island), Bizim Tombiş Taştan Hiç Anlamıyor
(Our Fatty Doesn’t Know Anything About Stones), Ben Ne Zaman Doğdum (When
Was I Born?), Benim Bir Karışım (My Hand Span), Tombiş Maskeli Baloya Katılmak
İstemiyor (Fatty Doesn’t Want to go to the Masked Ball), Karadenizdeki
Yunus (Black Sea Dolphin), Doğum Günü Hediyesi (The Birthday Present),
Ayşe’nin Bulut Projesi ( Ayşe’s Cloud Project), Dikkat Su ( Look out Water),
Dikkat Dünya (Look out World), Bilyalar (Marbles), Kim Kime Dum Duma (
Do Your Own Thing), Ben Yapmadım Ögretmenim (It Wasn’t Me Sir), Galiba
Seni Seviyorum (I Think I Love You), Ne Biçim Kurbağasın Sen? (What Kind
of Frog are You?), Iletişim Karikatürleri (Communication Cartoons), Zelzele
(Quake), Was Kümmerts Mich? (What do I Care?), Yıldızların Tembelliği
(The Stars’ Laziness).
30 pages, Children’s Books, Translated by Sabina Adatepe
ISBN: 9789944717113
behicak@yahoo.com
Ayşe and Ahmet spent all their time either sitting
in their dad, Ibo’s lap, or right at the top of their
village’s only tree, a huge plane tree. They believed
that the tree had high blood pressure just like their
dad. When you looked at the plane tree that had
high blood pressure, from the mushroom topped
roofs, or through the tiny windows of the village
houses, the tree looked like a giant hovering over
the sea. One day Ahmet shouted excitedly, “The
plane tree has dried up!”