Ağır Roman (novel)
Ağır Roman may refer to: * ''Ağır Roman'' (novel), a best-selling novel by Metin Kaçan Metin Kaçan (15 November 1961 – 6 January 2013) was a Turkish author, who is best known for his novel ''Ağır Roman (novel), Ağır Roman'' (''Cholera Street''), which was translated into German (Kaçan 2003), and a movie (''Ağır Roman (fil ... * ''Ağır Roman'' (film), a 1997 film directed by Mustafa Altıoklar, adapted from Metin Kaçan's novel {{disambig ...
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Metin Kaçan
Metin Kaçan (15 November 1961 – 6 January 2013) was a Turkish author, who is best known for his novel ''Ağır Roman (novel), Ağır Roman'' (''Cholera Street''), which was translated into German (Kaçan 2003), and a movie (''Ağır Roman (film), Ağır Roman''), directed by Mustafa Altıoklar (1999), was based on it. Literary career Besides ''Ağır Roman (novel), Ağır Roman'', Kaçan is also the author of the novel ''Fındık Sekiz'', a collection of short stories, "A ship to the Islands" (''Adalara Vapur'', Kaçan 2002), and a book written in a mixed style between prose and poetry, entitled "The Tiger at Withdrawal" (''Harman Kaplan'', Kaçan 1999). Much of Kaçan's writings deals with life in Istanbul, in particular its poor quarter Dolapdere (not far from Taksim Square). To Dolapdere, he sarcastically gave the name "Cholera" (''Kolera'' in Turkish) in ''Ağır Roman'', thereby recalling both its shabbiness and the fact that the great Poland, Polish poet Adam Mickiewi ...
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