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Bilge Karasu (9 January 1930 – 13 July 1995), was a Turkish short story writer and novelist.
Biography
Bilge Karasu was born in 1930, in Istanbul.[1] Bilge Karasu's parents, who later converted to Islam, were of Jewish origin,[2] although he does not have any kinship with Emanuel Karasu, an Ottoman politician of Jewish origin.[3] He studied at Şişli Terakki High School and at Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Philosophy. He published articles on art criticism in the Forum magazine between 1954 and 1959.[4]
In 1963, he returned from Europe, where he had studied on a Rockefeller scholarship. In 1964, he started to work as a translator at the General Directorate of Press, Broadcasting, and Tourism and in the foreign broadcasting service of Ankara Radio.[5]
Karasu wrote radio plays for Ankara Radioı.[6] He worked as a lecturer at Hacettepe University's Philosophy Department from 1974 until his death.[7]
He lived in a small basement on Nilgün Street in Ankara for years.[8] He died on 14 July, 1995, at Hacettepe University Hospital, Ankara where he was being treated for pancreatic cancer. He is buried in Karşıyaka Cemetery.[9]
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