Hasan Ali Toptaş
1958
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country of citizenship: Turkey
languages spoken, written or signed: Turkish
occupation: writer
award received: Yunus Nadi Prize, Sedat Simavi Literature Award, Orhan Kemal Novel Prize
influenced by: Oğuz Atay
official website: www.hasanalitoptas.net
Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 15 October 1958) is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. His first short story book Bir Gülüşün Kimliği (The Identity of A Laugh) 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). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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