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Something wrong?Yaşar Kemal was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent, who wrote in Turkish and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk.
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2015Died28 February 20152013Bjørnson PrizeAward2008Presidential Culture and Arts Grand AwardsAward2002Honorary doctor of the Bilkent UniversityAward1997International Nonino PrizeAwardMonismanien PrizeAwardPeace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' AssociationAwardStig Dagerman PrizeAward1996Catalonia International PrizeAward1991Honorary Doctor of the University of Strasbourg-IIAward1982Prix mondial Cino Del DucaAward1923Born6 October 1923
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About this person
Country
Turkey
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 2015 · aged 91
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