Adalet Ağaoğlu

Adalet Ağaoğlu
Born Adalet Sümer
1929 (age 8687)
Nallıhan, Ankara Province, Turkey
Nationality Turkish
Ethnicity Turkish
Alma mater Ankara University
Occupation Novelist, playwright
Spouse(s) Halim Ağaoğlu (m. 1954)
Awards Turkish Presidency Merit Award
1995

Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer in 1929) is a Turkish novelist and playwright. She is considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th century Turkish literature.[1] She has also written essays, memoirs, and short stories.

Life and career

Early life

She was born in Nallıhan, Ankara Province in 1929.[2]

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

Novels

References

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