Ahmet Ümit





Ahmet Ümit

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January 01, 1960

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Ahmet Ümit was born in 1960 in the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. He moved to Istanbul in 1978 to
attend university. In 1983 he both graduated from the Public Administration
Faculty of Marmara University and wrote his very first story. An active member
of the Turkish Communist Party from 1974 until 1989 Ümit took part in the
underground movement for democracy while Turkey was under the rule of a
military dictatorship between 1980-1990. In 1985-86 he illegally attended the
Academy for Social Sciences in Moscow.
Ümit worked in the advertising sector from 1989-1998 and is currently employed
as cultural advisor at the Goethe Foundation in Istanbul. He has one daughter Gül.
Since 1989 Ümit has published one volume of
poetry three volumes of short s...more


Average rating: 3.67 · 4,348 ratings · 137 reviews · 24 distinct works · Similar authors
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Sis ve Gece
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3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
Sultanı Öldürmek
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
Şeytan Ayrıntıda Gizlidir
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
Kukla
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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“Sevmek bir anlamda senden olmayana ulaşmak, bunun için çabalamak değil midir? Senden farklı olmayan birine niye ulaşmaya çalışasın ki?”
Ahmet Ümit, Bab-ı Esrar

“Birini çok seversen, ama sahiden seversen, sana ne yapmış olursa olsun, eninde sonunda mutlaka bağışlanırsın.”
Ahmet Ümit, Bab-ı Esrar

“Şahane bir aşk, çoğu zaman harcanmış bir hayat demektir.”
Ahmet Ümit, Sultanı Öldürmek



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