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Oğuz Atay

The authority record describes Oğuz Atay as Oğuz Atay studied at ITU Faculty of Civil Engineering and TED Ankara College Foundation Schools. The recorded working language is Turkish. Henry James and Vladimir Nabokov are recorded as an influence.

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Biography

Employment is recorded with Istanbul Technical University. Works named in the authority record are The Disconnected and Dangerous Games.

Oğuz Atay is recorded as engineer, writer, playwright and university teacher.

Oğuz Atay studied at ITU Faculty of Civil Engineering and TED Ankara College Foundation Schools. The recorded working language is Turkish.

Henry James and Vladimir Nabokov are recorded as an influence.

Employment is recorded with Istanbul Technical University.

Works named in the authority record are The Disconnected and Dangerous Games.

Catalogued output

Works

  • Eylembilim

  • Waiting for the Fear

  • The Disconnected

  • Dangerous Games

  • Korkuyu beklerken

  • Tehlikeli oyunlar

  • Tutunamayanlar

  • Oyunlarla yaşayanlar

  • Bir bilim adaminin romani

  • Günlük

  • Oğuz Atay'a armağan

  • Bir bilim adamının romanı, Mustafa İnan

    1975

Dated record

Life and career

Explore 1934–1977

  1. 1934

    Life

    Oğuz Atay born.

  2. 1971

    Institution

    Tutunamayanlar - Oğuz Atay (1971) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

  3. 1971

    Institution

    Tutunamayanlar - Oğuz Atay digitised by Internet Archive.

  4. 1975

    Bir bilim adamının romanı, Mustafa İnan is dated 1975.

  5. 1977

    Life

    Oğuz Atay died.

The full dated record · 5 entries

  1. 1934

    Oğuz Atay born.

  2. 1971

    Tutunamayanlar - Oğuz Atay (1971) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

  3. 1971

    Tutunamayanlar - Oğuz Atay digitised by Internet Archive.

  4. 1975

    Bir bilim adamının romanı, Mustafa İnan is dated 1975.

  5. 1977

    Oğuz Atay died.

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Places

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  • Istanbul
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  • İnebolu

    Birth place

Primary material

Documents and archives

Literature

Bibliography

Modern Sonrası Oyun Yazarlığının Türkiye’deki Öncüleri: Oğuz Atay ve Sevim Burak, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021. Atay, Oğuz: Tutunamayanlar, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020.

  • Atay, Oğuz, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020

  • Selim Işık’s Agony in Oğuz Atay’s "Tutunamayanlar", Current Perspectives in Social Sciences, 2024

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References

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  • Tutunamayanlar - Oğuz Atay (1971) — Internet Archive

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