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Yaşar Kemal

Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)

  • Fame55.4
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia14K
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Lived 1923–2015, aged 92Turkey
TurkeyTurkeyWritersWriter / Author
  • Wikipedia
    50 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1923–2015
    Aged 92
  • Known for
    Ala Geyik
    1969
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Updated 2026-06-24

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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