Orhan Kemal

Orhan Kemal, whose real name was Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü, was born on 15 September 1914 in Ceyhan. His father, a deputy, went into exile in Syria, where he followed him for a year before returning to Adana in 1932 and working there, notably in a spinning mill. Arrested in 1938 during his military service, he was sentenced to five years' detention and met in prison the poet Nâzım Hikmet, who encouraged him to write fiction. Settled in Istanbul around 1950, he died in Sofia in June 1970.

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• NovelEskici ve OğullarıOrhan Kemal · 1962not translated into EnglishLiterature