Emre Miyasoğlu (born 26 October 1981 in
Istanbul
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) is a Turkish writer.
Background
He has been in Islamabad, Pakistan, between 1988–1992 and completed his
primary school
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there. His father Mustafa Miyasoğlu (litterateur, novelist and journalist) was a lecturer in the
Turkish Literature faculty in Islamabad. He took his
junior high education in Istanbul
Adnan Menderes Anatolian High School. After taking license from Anatolian University, School of
Business Administration
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Overview
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Faculty he is still continuing his master study in Classic Turkish Literature.
Career
His narratives, essays, drama and book critiques and translated works have been published in various literary magazines and especially in the newspaper ''
Milli Gazete''. In 2003 his first story book ''Olmaz Hayal'' (Impossible Fancy) and in 2006 his first novel ''Yalnızlık Rüyası'' (Solitude Dream) were published.
The author has also translated
Edith Nesbit's ''
The Railway Children'', and prepared a story anthology of
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely re ...
in Turkish. He has also translated the autobiography of the Indian national hero
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...
(''Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi: The Story of My Experiments With Truth'').
He has also written studies of Turkish classic novels.
List of works
Short stories
"Olmaz Hayal" (''Impossible Fancy'') (2003)
Novels
"Yalnızlık Rüyası" (''Solitude Dream'') (2006)
References
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Turkish novelists
Turkish male short story writers
Turkish translators
Living people
1981 births