Adalet Ağaoğlu

Adalet Ağaoğlu
Born	Adalet Sümer 1929 (age 81–82) Ankara, Turkey
Occupation	Novelist, playwright
Language	Turkish
Nationality	Turkish
Ethnicity	Turkish
Alma mater	Ankara University
Period	1946–present
Notable award(s)	Turkish Presidency Merit Award 1995
Spouse(s)	Halim Ağaoğlu (m. 1954)

Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer; born 1929) is a Turkish novelist and playwright.

Life and career

Early life

She was born in Nallıhan district of Ankara in 1929.^[1]

Publishing career

As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey. Considered to be one of the most important living authors in Turkey a revered intellectual, her tightly constructed prose is a balance between a realistic millieu of Turkey which she knows firsthand and the broader, more humanistic elements of social pressure and gender prejudice. In an unfamiliar urban world, her fictional newcomers to modernity struggle with age-old issues complicated by perplexing political, religious, economic and social forces.

She has been rewarded with numerous honors besides the literary awards she won in the fields of novel, short story and drama. For her perception of subtle and overt changes in modern Turkish society and her writing entitled "Modernism and Social Change", Adalet Ağaoğlu received the "Turkish Presidency Merit Award" in 1995. In 1998, Ağaoğlu received "Honorary Ph.D." from Anadolu University followed by the "Ph.D. of Humane Letters" from the Ohio State University.

Theatre and Radio drama

• Yaşamak - 1955
• Evcilik Oyunu - 1964
• Sınırlarda Aşk - 1965
• Çatıdaki Çatlak - 1965
• Tombala - 1967
• Çatıdaki Çatlak 1967
• Sınırlarda Aşk-Kış-Barış 1970
• Üç Oyun: Bir Kahramanın Ölümü, Çıkış, Kozalar 1973
• Kendini Yazan Şarkı 1976
• Duvar Öyküsü 1992
• Çok Uzak-Fazla Yakın 1991

Novels

• Ölmeye Yatmak - 1973
• Fikrimin İnce Gülü - 1976
• Bir Düğün Gecesi - 1979
• Yazsonu - 1980
• Üç Beş Kişi - 1984
• Hayır... - 1987
• Ruh Üşümesi - 1991
• Romantik Bir Viyana Yazı - 1993

References

1. ^ McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes. 2 (2 ed.). Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG. 1984. pp. 31. ISBN 0070791694, 9780070791695. http://books.google.com/books?id=VGNJxj9qnEkC&pg=PA31&dq=Adalet+A%C4%9Fao%C4%9Flu&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. Retrieved 1 March 2010. 

External links

• Turkish Authors – Adalet Ağaoğlu

Persondata
Name	Agaoglu, Adalet
Alternative names	Sumer, Adalet
Short description	Turkish novelist
Date of birth	1929-{}-1
Place of birth	Ankara, Turkey
Date of death
Place of death