Hasan Ali Toptaş

Infobox Writer
name = Hasan Ali Toptaş


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birthdate = 1958
birthplace = Çal, Denizli, Turkey
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occupation = Novelist, Short story writer
genre = Modernism, Post-Modernism
period = 1987-
influences = Franz Kafka, Cervantes, Scheherazade
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website = http://www.hasanalitoptas.net

Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 1958) is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. He was born in Denizli, Turkey. His first short story book "Bir Gülüşün Kimliği" (The Identity of A Laughter) was published in 1987. An important Turkish scholar, Yıldız Ecevit nicknames him "a postmodern modernist" and calls him "a Kafka in Turkish literature", in her work"Türk Romanında Postmodernist Açılımlar" (The Postmodernist Expansion in Turkish Literature). In fact, Hasan Ali Toptaş's 1999 Cevdet Kudret Literature Award winner "Bin Hüzünlü Haz" is, on the one hand, a postmodern novella in terms of pluralism, metafiction and intertextuality. On the other hand it contains a lot of kafkaesque elements in terms of depicting an absurd, surreal and paradoxically mundane reality.

Works

*Yalnızlıklar (Solitudes) - 1990
*Ölü Zaman Gezginleri (The Dead Time Travelers) - 1993
*Sonsuzluğa Nokta (Full Stop to Infinity) - 1993
*Gölgesizler (The Shadowless) - 1995
*Kayıp Hayaller Kitabı (The Book of Lost Dreams) - 1996
*Ben Bir Gürgen Dalıyım (I am A Hornbeam Branch) - 1997
*Bin Hüzünlü Haz (A-Thousand-Gloomy Pleasure) - 1999
*Uykuların Doğusu (The East of Slumbers) - 2005

External links

* [http://www.hasanalitoptas.net The Official Site of H. A. Toptaş]