According to the CNNTürk chain, writer Turkish Yasar Kemal died Saturday at age 92 after a period of hospitalization. This writer is considered the epitome of Turkish literature, and his works have been translated into 40 languages.
The author of ‘The Falcon ‘, was hospitalized on January 14 for respiratory problems and cardiac arrhythmia, and continued since then interned in Istanbul. According to the doctor Mehmet Akif Karan, the writer died of multiple organ failure, including heart and lung.
The writer was born in 1923 in the province of Osmaniye (southern Turkey) under the name Kemal Sadik Gökçeli was from the mid-twentieth century the most popular novelist in Turkey. In 1955 Yasar Kemal achieved national fame with the epic novel ‘Ince Memed’ (‘The Hawk’ in the Spanish translation), which chronicles the struggle of a young peasant dispossessed against the authorities.
The style of his work was marked by a mixture of folk elements and popular legends, with a vision of social critique close to the class struggle, which caused his works were very popular in Turkey.
Yasar Kemal had received numerous international awards and was regarded in Turkey as the eternal candidate for the Nobel prize.
Kemal was an intellectual committed to ideas of the Turkish left and received a sentence (suspended) to 20 months in prison in years . 90 “defend separatism”
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