Prominent Turkish author Adalet Agaoglu died on Tuesday at the age of 91. She is described as the most prolific authors of 20th century Turkish literature.
“We lost Adalet Agaoglu this morning,” wrote Turkish literary critic Semih Gumus on Twitter. “She was one of the most important writers of our literature. Her novels were very special,” Gumus said sharing a photo of the Turkish novelist along with her husband who died in 2018. Turkey’s prestigious Bogazici University said: “We have lost the great name of our literature, the valuable writer Adalet Agaoglu, who has an honorary Ph.D. from Bogazici University. She will always live with her works.”
The award-winning writer was born in 1929 in the Turkish capital Ankara. She studied French Language and Literature at Ankara University"Her first novel, Lying down to Die, was published in 1973 and soon became a hit, later becoming a trilogy with the publication of A Wedding Night (1979) and No (1989),” according to Bogazici University. “Agaoglu’s second novel, Thin Rose of My Thoughts (1976), was pulled off the shelves at the fourth edition after charges were filed against her for ‘humiliating and deriding armed forces’. She was eventually acquitted after a two-year trial,” the university said.
In 2010, Agagolu donated her personal archive to the university which has been kept in a room designed under her supervision. This room also contains her personal objects such as her study-desk and typewriter, her correspondence and the first editions of her books. Also, a human rights defender, Agaoglu’s writings focused on social issues and their impacts on individuals through sarcasm and monologues.
Mavi Boncuk |Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer; 23 October 1929 – 14 July 2020)[1] was a Turkish novelist and playwright, considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Turkish literature.[2] She also wrote essays, memoirs, and short stories.
She was born in Nallıhan, Ankara Province on 23 October 1929.[3][4]
As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey. Once 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 milieu 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 was 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
Yaşamak – 1955
Evcilik Oyunu – 1964
Sınırlarda Aşk – 1965
Çatıdaki Çatlak – 1965
Tombala – 1967
Çatıdaki Çatlak 1967
Sınırlarda Aşk-Kış-Barış 1970
Üç Oyun: Bir Kahramanın Ölümü, Çıkış, Kozalar 1973
Kendini Yazan Şarkı 1976
Duvar Öyküsü 1992
Çok Uzak-Fazla Yakın 1991
Novels
Ölmeye Yatmak – 1973
Fikrimin İnce Gülü – 1976
Bir Düğün Gecesi – 1979
Yazsonu – 1980
Üç Beş Kişi – 1984
Hayır... – 1987
Ruh Üşümesi – 1991
Romantik Bir Viyana Yazı – 1993
References
[1] Profile of Adalet Ağaoğlu
[2] "Nihat Duğancı, Adalet Ağaoğlu'nun Romanları ve Romancılığı, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Çanakkale, 2006". Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2014-07-24.
[4] McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes.
(2 ed.). Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG. 1984. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-07-079169-5. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
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