The Sedat Simavi Literature Prize is a

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presented annually. It was established in 1977 by Sedat Simavi Foundation, in memory of author and journalist,

Sedat Simavi Sedat Simavi (1896 – 11 December 1953) was a Turkish people, Turkish journalist, writer and film director. He established many newspapers and magazines. Biography Simavi was born in 1896. His grandfather and uncles served in different posi ...

. The prize is given also in nine different areas in sport, TV, radio, reporting, healthy, science, social sciences and visual arts.

Award winners

*2021

Orhan Pamuk Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three lan ...

*2020 Beşir Ayvazoğlu *2019 Hidayet Sayın *2018 Kamuran Şipal *2017 Cevat Çapan *2016 Haluk Oral *2015 Nilüfer Kuyaş *2014 Murat Gülsoy *2013

Hasan Ali Toptaş Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 15 October 1958) is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. His first short story book ''Bir Gülüşün Kimliği'' (The Identity of A Laugh) was published in 1987. An important Turkish scholar, Yıldız Ecevi ...

*2012 Ahmet Cemal *2011

Burhan Sönmez Burhan Sönmez is a Kurdish prize-winning novelist from Turkey. He is the President of PEN International, elected at the Centennial Congress in 2021. Sönmez is the author of five novels. His first novel, ''North'' (Kuzey), was published in 200 ...

*2010

Adnan Binyazar Adnan ( ar, عدنان, 'adnān) is the traditional ancestor of the Adnanite Arabs of Northern, Western, Eastern and Central Arabia, as opposed to the Qahtanite Arabs of Southern Arabia who descend from Qahtan. His ancestry can be traced back t ...

*2009 Cemil Kavukçu *2008 Arif Damar *2007 Ahmet Oktay *2006 Tarık Dursun K. *2005

Latife Tekin Latife Tekin (born 1957) is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. Biography She was born in 1957 in the village of Karacahevenk, in the Bünyan district of Kayseri. She came to Istanbul with her family in 1966 when she was 9 year ...

*2004 Demir Özlü *2003

Selim İleri Salim, Saleem or Selim may refer to: People *Salim (name), or Saleem or Salem or Selim, a name of Arabic origin *Salim (poet) (1800–1866) *Saleem (playwright) (fl. 1996) *Selim I, Selim II and Selim III, Ottoman Sultans * Selim people, an eth ...

*2002

Tomris Uyar Tomris Uyar (15 March 1941 – 4 July 2003) was a Turkish writer and translator. She was born in Istanbul, the daughter of two lawyers and granddaughter of Republican People's Party politician Süleyman Sırrı Gedik. She was educated at the B ...

*2001 Erdal Öz *2000 Jale Parla *1999 Tahsin Yücel *1998 *1997 Fakir Baykurt, Feyza Hepçilingirler *1996 Orhan Duru *1995 Nermi Uygur, Minâ Urgan *1994 Bilge Karasu *1993

Oktay Akbal Oktay is a Turkish masculine given name. It is also used as a surname. Notable people with the name are as follows: First name *Oktay Afandiyev (1926–2013), Azerbaijani historian * Oktay Delibalta (born 1985), Turkish football player *Oktay Dere ...

, Vüs'at O. Bener *1992 Mehmet Fuat,

Gülten Akın Gülten Akın (23 January 1933 – 4 November 2015) was a Turkish poet. Her poetry is considered to be culturally significant to Turkey. Akin was born in 1933 in Yozgat, Turkey. She attended Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School and gradua ...

*1991 Cevdet Kudret,

Fethi Naci Fethi is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic name Fathi (Arabic: فَتْحِي ''fat·ḥiy/ fat·ḥī/ fat·ḥy'') which means "victorious, triumphant". It may refer to: * Fethi Benslama (born 1961), Paris-based Tunisian psychoanalyst * Fethi ...

*1990

Sabahattin Kudret Aksal Sabahattin is a Turkish given name for males. Variant forms of the name such as Sabahudin are also found in the former Ottoman Empire. Notable people with the name include: * Prens Sabahaddin (1877–1948), Ottoman sociologist * Sabahattin Ali (190 ...

*1989 Vedat Günyol *1988

İlhan Berk İlhan Berk (18 November 1918 – 28 August 2008) was a leading Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry (termed, "İkinci Yeni"; ''"The second new generation"'') and was very influential among Turkish li ...

Ferit Edgü Ferit is a Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Farid (Arabic: فَرِيد ''fariyd'', ''farīd'') meaning "unique, singular ("the One"), incomparable". The name is also found in Albania and Macedonia. People named Ferit include: ...

*1987 Hilmi Yavuz *1986 Salâh Birsel *1985

Yaşar Kemal Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a Turkish writer and human rights activist and one of Turkey's leading writers. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel ...

*1984 Turgut Uyar *1983

Pertev Naili Boratav Pertev Naili Boratav, born Mustafa Pertev (September 2, 1907 – March 16, 1998) was a Turkish folklorist and researcher of folk literature. He has been characterized as 'the founding father of Turkish folkloristics during the Republic'.Arzu Öztür ...

Haldun Taner Haldun Taner (March 16, 1915 – May 7, 1986) was a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer. Biography He was born on March 16, 1915 in Istanbul. After graduating from the Galatasaray High School in 1935, he studied politics and ec ...

*1982 No awarded *1981

Edip Cansever Edip Cansever (pronounced ; August 8, 1928 – May 28, 1986) was a Turkish poet. Biography Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Cansever attended Trade Academy for some time, and worked as an antiquity salesman in Grand Bazaar, Istanbul The Grand ...

*1980

Oktay Rifat Oktay is a Turkish masculine given name. It is also used as a surname. Notable people with the name are as follows: First name *Oktay Afandiyev (1926–2013), Azerbaijani historian *Oktay Delibalta (born 1985), Turkish football player *Oktay Derel ...

*1979

Adalet Ağaoğlu Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer; 23 October 1929 – 14 July 2020) was a Turkish women, Turkish Turkish women in literature, novelist and Theatre in Turkey, playwright, considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Turkish literature. Sh ...

*1978

Melih Cevdet Anday Melih Cevdet Anday (13 March 1915 – 28 November 2002) was a Turkish writer whose poetry stands outside the traditional literary movements. He also wrote in many other genres which, over six and a half decades, included eleven collections of p ...

*1977

Peride Celal Peride Celal Yönsel (June 10, 1916 – June 15, 2013), commonly known as Peride Celal or Peride Celâl, was a Turkish novelist and story writer. Her work has won major awards such as the Sedat Simavi Literature Award in 1977, and the Orhan Kemal ...

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (26 August 1914, Istanbul – 15 October 2008, Istanbul) was one of the most prolific Turkish poets of the Turkish Republic with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007. He was a laureate of the ...

References

External links

*{{Official, http://tgc.org.tr/simavi.html Turkish literary awards Awards established in 1977 Turkish awards

Award winners

See also

References

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