Cast · Writer
Yaşar Kemal
1923 – 2015
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1958–2017
- Schools and movements
- Turkish Cinema
Biography
Yaşar Kemal was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk.
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Awards and honours
International
- Prix mondial Cino Del Duca 1982
- honorary doctor of the University of Strasbourg-II 1991
- Catalonia International Prize 1996
- International Nonino Prize 1997
- Monismanien Prize 1997
- Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association 1997
- Stig Dagerman Prize 1997
- Bjørnson Prize 2013
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
National / local
- Honorary doctor of the Bilkent University 2002
- Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards 2008
- Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards
- Sedat Simavi Prizes
Directors worked with
5 films on this site
- Bu vatanin çocuklari 1958 · Atıf Yılmaz · IMDb 5.6 · Writer
- Alageyik 1959 · Atıf Yılmaz · IMDb 5.5 · Writer
- Ölüm Tarlasi 1966 · Atıf Yılmaz · IMDb 5.8 · Writer
- Yilani Öldürseler 1981 · Türkan Şoray · IMDb 6.5 · Writer
- The Legend of Yasar Kemal 2017 · Aydın Orak · IMDb 7.5 · Cast