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Nedim Gürsel was born in Gaziantep in 1951. He spent his childhood in Balıkesir and currently lives in Paris. After finishing Galatasaray High School in 1970, Gürsel went to Paris and graduated from the Department of Modern French Literature at Sorbonne University in 1974. He completed his doctorate on the comparative literature at Sorbonne University. As of today Gürsel teaches Turkish literature at Sorbonne University and works as the research director on Turkish Literature at the International French Science Research Center (CNRS). He is a journalist as well as a researcher and the member of PEN Writer Association, the House of Writers in Paris and the Mediterranean Academy. Gürsel is the author of a score of novels, short stories, travelogues and essays that have been translated into over twelve languages. Since 1966 his novels and essays were published in magazines such as “Yeni Ufuklar”, “Yeni Edebiyat”, “Birikim” and “Milliyet Sanat ve Gösteri”. His writing is in multiple forms, mixing lyricism, love songs, humor, epic, erotism, or even fantasy. Gürsel has received many prizes both in Turkey and abroad. Some of his novels were adopted into theater and films. In 2013, Gürsel received a prestigious French award, the "Priz Méditéettanée" for his book The Devil, the Angel and the Communist.
Awards:
1977, Story Prize by Turkish Language Association (Uzun Sürmüş Bir Yaz)
1986, the Abdi İpekçi Prix for his contribution to the bringing together of the people Greek and Turkish (İlk Kadın)
1986, the Freedom Award by French PEN Club (Sevgilim İstanbul)
1987, Haldun Taner Citation (with Tomris Uyar and Murathan Munhan)
1990, The prize of best international scenario by Radio France Internationale
1992, Struga Gold Plaque Award
2004, France-Turquie Literary Prize “Fernand Rouillon” (Öğleden Sonra Aşk)
2004, Art and Literature Chivalry by French Government
Notable among his works:
Kadınlar Kitabı (Turkish women’s literature), 1975
Uzun Sürmüş Bir Yaz (A Long Summer in Istanbul), 1976
İlk Kadın (The First Woman), 1986 and 2004
Sevgilim İstanbul (Istanbul My Love), 1986
Son Tramvay (the Last tram), 1991
Saint Nazaire Günlüğü (the Newspaper of Saint-Nazaire), 1995
Boğazkesen, Fatih’in Romanı (the Novel of the conqueror), 1996
Balkanlara Dönüş (Return in Balkans), 1995
Nâzım Hikmet ve Geleneksel Türk Yazısı (Nazim Hikmet and Turkish popular literature), 2000
Yaşar Kemal (Yachar Kemal-the Novel of a transition), 2000 and 2005
Aragon: Başkaldırıdan Gerçeğe (the Perpetual motion of Aragon- revolt dadaïste with the real-world), 2000
Sağ Sağlim Kavuşsak, Çocukluk Yılları, (With the country of captive fish - a Turkish childhood), 2004
Allah′ın Kızları (the Daughter of Allah), 2008
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