Fahrettin Çiloğlu (born October 5, 1956,

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, Turkey), is a Turkish writer and translator, whose family emigrated from

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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

Of Georgian 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 Georgian letters in Turkey, Fahrettin Çiloğlu adapted the book ''Deda Ena / დედა ენა'' ("Mother Tongue") by

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— for the benefit of Turkish 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 (Turkish: ''Ben Oyum'', 2017; ) * Kvachi Kvachantiradze (კვაჭი კვაჭანტირაძე) by Mikheil Javakhishvili (Turkish: ''Madrabaz Kvaçi'', 2015; ) * A Man Was Going Down the Road (გზაზე ერთი კაცი მიდიოდა) by Otar Chiladze (Turkish: ''Yolda Bir Adam Gidiyordu'', 2015; ) *

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(მზიანი ღამე) by

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(Turkish: ''Güneşli Gece'', 2015; ) * Mosquito in the City (კოღო ქალაქში) by

(Turkish: ''Sivrisinek Şehirde'', 2014; ) * Jeans Generation (ჯინსების თაობა) by David Turashvili (Turkish: ''Blucinliler'', 2012; )

External links

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

References

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