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Obituary: Yasar Kemal 2 mars 2015

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The Guardian (UK) Monday, March 2, 2015, p. 39

David Barchard

Turkish writer best known for his novel Memed, My Hawk. The Turkish writer Yasar Kemal, who has died aged 91, found fame after the publication of his first novel, Ince Memed (1955), translated into English as Memed, My Hawk (1961). (suite…)

Yachar Kemal, mort de « l’Homère de l’Anatolie » 2 mars 2015

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Le Figaro (France) no. 21947, lundi 2 mars 2015, p. 15
Le carnet du jour ~ Disparition

Sébastien de Courtois

Yachar Kemal était un colosse de la littérature mondiale. Il n’est presque pas nécessaire d’en préciser plus, sinon que sa langue natale était le turc. (suite…)

History’s waiting room 2 mars 2015

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Review (UK) March 2, 2015, p. 20

Pankaj Mishra

The Time Regulation Institute is a brilliant comic novel from 1962 about life in a Turkey forced to adopt western ways. Pankaj Mishra salutes its author, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. Orhan Pamuk has called Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-62) the greatest Turkish novelist of the 20th century. (suite…)