Fahrettin Çiloğlu (born October 5, 1956,

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writer and translator, whose family emigrated from Georgia in the late nineteenth century. In Georgian publications and Turkish translations, he uses the pen name ფარნა-ბექა ჩილაშვილი (Parna-Beka Chilashvili) and Parna-Beka Çilaşvili.

Biography

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ancestry, Çiloğlu studied journalism in

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, and worked for many years as an editor specializing in encyclopedias and as a director of publications. In addition to writing numerous journal and newspaper articles, he has also translated fiction and non-fiction works from Georgian to Turkish. He was the editor of the bilingual Turkish-Georgian magazine ''

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'', which was published in Istanbul between 2007 and 2010. Fahrettin Çiloğlu is a member of the Turkish

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Fiction

Fahrettin Çiloğlu's first literary publications consisted of poems which appeared in journals such as ''İnsancıl'' and ''Adam Sanat''. This was followed by short stories and his first story was published by the journal ''Üçüncü Öyküler'' in İzmit. Later short stories appeared in ''Üçüncü Öyküler'' as well as journals such as ''Adam Öykü'' and ''kitap-lık''. In 2004, he published a book of poetry titled ''Nisan Şiirleri'' (April Poems) as well as a book of short stories titled ''Beni Bırak Uzaklara'' ("Carry Me Far Away") and his diurnal notes titled ''Aşksız Mutluluk Yoktur'' ("No Happiness without Love"). Çiloğlu published his poems in Georgian and short stories translated from Turkish into Georgian under the title სასაზღვრო ფიქრები ("Border Thoughts") in 2006 in

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. He published his second book of short stories in Turkish in 2007 under the title ''Uçinmaçini''. A writer in both Turkish and Georgian, Çiloğlu has most recently published a new book of short stories titled სანამ თოვს ("While It Is Snowing") in Tbilisi (2012). One of the stories in this book was first published in German with the title "''Die Reise meiner Großmutter nach Istanbul''" ("My Grandmother’s Journey to Istanbul") in the anthology, ''Unser Istanbul'' (2008, Berlin). In 2016, a children's book he wrote in Turkish was translated into Georgian and published with the title ნამცეცა (Namtsetsa; "Tiny").

Non-fiction

Among Çiloğlu's non-fiction works in Turkish is ''Gürcülerin Tarihi'' (Istanbul, 1993), a survey of Georgian history, which includes the history of Georgian people in Turkey. In order to introduce

letters in Turkey, Fahrettin Çiloğlu adapted the book ''Deda Ena / დედა ენა'' ("Mother Tongue") by Iakob Gogebashvili —the founder of scientific pedagogy in Georgia— for the benefit of

speakers. Çiloğlu is also one of the authors of the book ''Contrasts and Solutions in the Caucasus'' edited by Ole Høiris and Sefa Martin Yürükel in 1998. His essays in Turkish which were published in various places between 2003 and 2009 were translated into Georgian and published in Georgia as a book titled "A Drop of Lemon" ("ერთი წვეთი ლიმონი").

Translations

Çiloğlu has translated the following works of Georgian literature into Turkish: * Lambalo and Kasha (ლამბალო და ყაშა) by Mikheil Javakhishvili (Turkish: ''Lambalo ve Kaşa'', 2018; ) * Vano and Niko (ვანო და ნიკო) by

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(Turkish: ''Vano ile Niko'', 2017; ) * I am that One (მე ის ვარ) by

Naira Gelashvili Naira Gelashvili ( ka, ნაირა გელაშვილი) (born 28 October 1947) is a Georgian fiction writer, philologist, Germanist, and civil society activist. Life and career Gelashvili graduated from the Faculty of Western Europea ...

(Turkish: ''Ben Oyum'', 2017; ) *

Kvachi Kvachantiradze ''Kvachi Kvachantiradze'' ( ka, კვაჭი კვაჭანტირაძე) is a novel written by Mikheil Javakhishvili in 1924. It was translated by Donald Rayfield in 2015. This is the best-known picaresque novel written in Georgia. ...

(კვაჭი კვაჭანტირაძე) by Mikheil Javakhishvili (Turkish: ''Madrabaz Kvaçi'', 2015; ) *

A Man Was Going Down the Road ''A Man Was Going Down the Road'' ( ka, გზაზე ერთი კაცი მიდიოდა) is a novel written by Otar Chiladze in 1973. It was translated into English by Donald Rayfield in 2012. Synopsis ''A Man Was Going Down ...

(გზაზე ერთი კაცი მიდიოდა) by

Otar Chiladze Otar Chiladze ( ka, ოთარ ჭილაძე; March 20, 1933 — October 1, 2009) was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of Georgian prose in the post-Joseph Stalin era. His novels characteristically fuse Sum ...

(Turkish: ''Yolda Bir Adam Gidiyordu'', 2015; ) *

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(მზიანი ღამე) by

Nodar Dumbadze Nodar Dumbadze ( ka, ნოდარ დუმბაძე, July 14, 1928 – September 4, 1984) was a popular Georgian writer. Biography Born in Guria, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Tbilisi State University in 1950. His first p ...

(Turkish: ''Güneşli Gece'', 2015; ) *

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(კოღო ქალაქში) by

(Turkish: ''Sivrisinek Şehirde'', 2014; ) * Jeans Generation (ჯინსების თაობა) by

David Turashvili David "Dato" Turashvili ( ka, დავით (დათო) ტურაშვილი) (born May 10, 1966 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian fiction writer. Biography In 1989, he was one of the leaders of the student protest action taking place at the ...

(Turkish: ''Blucinliler'', 2012; )

External links

Official web pages of Parna-Beka ChilashviliBlog of Parna-Beka Chilashvili

References

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