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Place of Birth: Manisa, Turkey
About Yusuf Atılgan
- Yusuf Atilgan (27 June 1921, Manisa – 9 October 1989, Istanbul) was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) and Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel).
- He is one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel. Atilgan is considered as one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel.
- His novels had a psychological style, digging into themes such as loneliness, questioning, meaning of life. Atilgan finished middle school in Manisa, then high school in Balikesir.
- He graduated in Turkish language and literature from Istanbul University.
- He finished his thesis titled Tokatli Kani: Sanat, sahsiyet ve psikoloji under supervision of Nihat Tarlan.
- Atilgan then began teaching literature at Maltepe Askeri Lisesi in Aksehir.
- In 1946, he settled down at a village named Hacirahmanli near Manisa where he took up writing.
- His novel Aylak Adam was published in 1959 which dealt with psychological themes such as loneliness, scope and possibility of love, meaning of life, seeking and obsession.
- This was followed in 1973 by Anayurt Oteli, which narrated the life of a hotel doorkeeper(named Zebercet) in an Anatolian town, with deep psychological examinations and touching themes such as sexuality and obsession.
- It gained further fame with a film based on the novel.
- In 1976, he began working in Istanbul as an editor and translator.
- With his wife Serpil he had a son in 1979 named Mehmet. Atilgan died of a heart attack in 1989 while in the middle of writing a novel titled Canistan.
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