What are your favourite Turkisk writers?

I´m looking for something to read, the topics are not that important.

So far I´ve just read Orhan Pamuk´s works and Ince Mehmet by Yaþar Kemal (which I did not appreciate at all - is he a masochist or something?)

I hope you meant Turkish

Adalet Agaoglu (Bir Dügün Gecesi -my all time favorite-,Yazsonu,Hayir)
Firuzan (kirkyedililer, her book of short stories)
Vedat Turkali (Mavi Karanlik, Bir Gün Tek Basina)
Latife Tekin (Berci Kristin Çöp Masallari)

Orhan Pamuk (kar, masumiyet muzesi-this is a fantastic book actually)

Ehm so when will the modify message function be back again pffft. Those of us who can´t write a sentence with typos reaaally miss it

Thanks for your suggestions Hopefully some of those titles are avaliable here, Turkish writers are not so known

I just read "Bir Kadýn Düþmaný" by Reþat Nuri Güntekin, it was a very nice and different book, especially the kind of book women would like. There are a lot of old turkish words in the book, but a dictionary at the end of the book exists. I don´t know if it was translated in english.

As we cannot modify, I´m adding it here. I recommended rather a book although you asked for writers, but take it as a recommandation for Reþat Nuri Güntekin, since he´s a well known good writer. His style in his books is simple and he make observations of the typical turkish people, and their relationships. There are a lot of dialogs in his books. As he has travelled a lot because of his job in Anatolia, he knows well anatolian people, because he lived in the begining of the 1900s, he uses a lot of old turkish words (arabic origined), some would find it boring, if it´s not a simplified book, but it does not restrain you from understanding the story, and you can learn new words.

You might also like Elif Shafak (Þafak?), she´s translated into English, I´m reading "The Bastard of Istanbul" right now and quite enjoying it.

Orhan Pamuk

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpýnar

Yakup Kadri Karaosmaoðlu

Ýhsan Oktay Anar ( much better than orhan pamuk i think ) 

Metin Kaçan

Tezer Özlü 

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-Sait Faik Abasýyanýk (Semaver- Sarnýç

-Adalet Aðaoðlu (Ölmeye yatmak, Bir düðün gecesi, Hayýr, Fikrimin ince gülü

-Halid Ziya Uþaklýgil (Aþk-ý Memnu, Kýrýk Hayatlar, Mai ve Siyah)

-Ayþe Kulin ( Adý: Aylin, Füreya, Bir Tatlý Huzur)

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Could you tell me more about this book? Since it´s not translated into English...

The title of the book is "bir kadýn düþmaný", "a woman´s enemy". The book is divided into two main parts. The first part consists of the letters of the female character, Sara, written to her female friend and her father.

Sara is a rich and a very beautiful urban girl who´s very spoilt, and she´s aware of the power of her beauty, she takes pleasure from making men fall in love with her, she has no intention to get married. She´ sure that every men can fall in love with her.

However, one day she meets a very ugly man who´s known as a woman´s enemy.He has no interest in women, he always makes fun of them and he´s very rude with them. Sara is  very surprised and very frustrated that he is not  interested even with her. So, she decides to take revenge trying to make him fall in love with her. Though, this seems to be impossible.

The second part of the books consists of the letters of this woman´s enemy written to his best and only friend.In this second part, the answers to all the questions are revealed.

I don´t tell the end of the book in case you read it one day

Thank you very much Meltem for the nice summary, the book sounds VERY interesting! I would love to read it one day.

If  you like to read from historical books, you can try Ýlber ORTAYLI´s and Halil Ýbrahim ÝNAL´s books. They are perfect about Ottoman´s History.

Especially Ýlber ORTAYLI. For example "Osmanlý´yý Yeniden Keþfetmek 1-2-3, Avrupa ve Biz, Mekan ve Olaylarýyla Topkapý Sarayý, Ýmparatorluðun En Uzun Yüzyýlý"

Azade, you might like to read:  PORTRAIT OF A TURKISH FAMILY, by  Irfan  Orga.

Easy reading!!!!!!!!!!!!!