Hakan Günday
Hakan Günday (born 29 May 1976) is a Turkish writer novelist and screenwriter. He lived in Brussels as a boy, before moving to Ankara where he completed Tevfik Fikret High School. He studied in Hacettepe University, Université libre de Bruxelles and Ankara University.
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- Born
- 1976 · Rhodes.
- Nationality
- Turkey
- Occupation
- novelist · screenwriter · writer
- Education
- Ankara University Faculty of Political Science
- Honours
- Prix Médicis étranger
- Languages
- Turkish
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His first novel Kinyas ve Kayra came out in 2000. Notable works include Loss (Ziyan), which won the Prix France-Turquie, and More (Daha) which won the Prix Médicis étranger. Günday lives and works in Istanbul.
• Van’mourn and Chaira (Kinyas ve Kayra), 2000, novel • Garfish (Zargana), 2002, novel • Bastard (Piç), 2003, novel • A Cautionary Tale (Malafa), 2005, novel • Dismissal (Azil), 2007, novel • Loss (Ziyan), 2009, novel 2014 Prix France-Turquie • The Few (AZ), 2011, novel 2011 Best Novel in Turkey • More (Daha), 2013, novel, 2015 Le Prix Médicis étranger • Pronoun (Zamir), 2021, novel
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Hakan Günday, a writer, was born on 29 May 1976 in Rhodos. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek records Brussels as a place of activity.
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- 1.Susanne Schürmanns. Hakan Günday - star de la littérature turque. fr - ARTE.
- 2.Étape à Cazères : l'auteur Hakan Günday à l'honneur. LaDépêche.fr.
- 3.Emmanuelle Caminade. Ziyan, Hakan Günday. lacauselitteraire.fr.
- 4.Souen Léger. L’écrivain turc Hakan Günday reçoit le prix France-Turquie 2014. Livres Hebdo.
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