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B O O K S F R O M T U R K E Y
B U K E T U Z U N E R
Buket Uzuner was born in 1955, in Ankara. She graduated as a biologist from
Hacettepe University. She has worked as a lecturer and researcher at universities in
Turkey and abroad. Her first short story was published in Dönemeç magazine. Her
stories and articles have been published in various periodicals like Yarın, Türk Dili,
Oluşum, Varlık, Sanat Olayı, Cönk, Gergedan and Argos. She edited the women’s
and travel sections in Rapsodi Magazine (1989, 1992). She served on the executive
committee of the Turkish PEN Writers’ Association between 1993 and 1995. In 1989,
she received a commendation at the Yunus Nadi Short Story competition and was
awarded the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize in 1993, for her book, entitled, Balık İzlerinin
Sesi (The Sound of Fish Steps).
WORKS: Bir Fincan Türk Kahvesi (A Cup of Turkish Coffee), Şiirin Kızkardeşi Öykü
(Tale, the Sister of Verse), Şairler Şehri (City of Poets), Karayel Hüznü (The Sorrow
of the North Wind), Güneş Yiyen Çingene (The Sun Eating Gypsy), Ayın En Çıplak
Günü (The Most Naked Day of the Month), Benim Adım Mayıs (My Name is May),
İstanbullular (Istanbullites), Uzun Beyaz Bulut - Gelibolu (Long White Cloud -
Gallipoli), Kumral Ada Mavi Tuna (Mediterranean Waltz), Balık İzlerinin Sesi (The
Sound of Fish Steps), İki Yeşil Su Samuru (Two Green Otters), New York Seyir Defteri
(New York Log Book), Bir Şehir Romantiğinin Günlüğü (The Diary of a City Romantic),
Bir Siyah Saçlı Kadının Gezi Notları (Travel Notes of a Brunette).
GELİBOLU-UZUN BEYAZ BULUT
GALLIPOLI-LONG WHITE CLOUD
Psichogios, Greece, 2005, 323 pages, Novel
Translated by Thanos Zaragalis
ISBN: 9752890296
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www.istanbultelifofisi.com
This is the amazing account of an eightyfive year old
mystery, which unfolds through the chance encounter
of two people, one, a young New Zealand woman
who comes to Turkey to search for the grave of her
grandfather who died in the battle for Gallipoli, the
other, an old Turkish grandmother who wanders around
Gallipoli National Park, hunched over her walking
stick. This book tells the story of a period that currently,
no country allows to be written in history books; it is a
challenge to humanity. How can the same man be a war
hero in two enemy countries? Can history be seen as a
linear process? Should history be rewritten?