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Mehmed Uzun

1953 - 2007

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Mehmed Uzun (January 1, 1953 – October 10, 2007) was a Kurdish writer and novelist born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Though the Kurdish language was outlawed in Turkey from 1920 to 1990, he started to write in it and achieved much toward shaping a modern Kurdish literary language and reviving the Kurdish tradition of storytelling. In 1977–2005 he lived in exile in Sweden as a political refugee, becoming a prolific writer, author of a dozen Kurdish-language novels and essays, which made him a founding member of Kurdish literature in Kurmanji dialect. In June 2005 he returned to Istanbul. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mehmed Uzun is the 5,964th most popular writer (up from 6,167th in 2019), the 1,234th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,263rd in 2019) and the 146th most popular Turkish Writer.

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Among writers, Mehmed Uzun ranks 5,964 out of 7,302. Before him are Florian Zeller, John Gardner, W. S. Merwin, Árpád Tóth, Kevin J. Anderson, and Anthony Shaffer. After him are Bessie Head, Fedor Samokhin, Eduard Bass, David Benioff, Aleksandr Chakovsky, and Arantxa Urretabizkaia.

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Among people born in 1953, Mehmed Uzun ranks 466. Before him are John Edwards, Paco Herrera, Vijay Amritraj, Lamberto Leoni, James Smith, and Ellen S. Baker. After him are Colin Hay, Jay O. Sanders, Geoffrey Oryema, Ronald Worm, Philippe Douste-Blazy, and Pavol Biroš. Among people deceased in 2007, Mehmed Uzun ranks 361. Before him are Dragutin Tadijanović, The Fabulous Moolah, Tamara Nosova, Leslie Orgel, Calvin Lockhart, and John Gardner. After him are F. Albert Cotton, Dmitri Prigov, Jean-François Deniau, Yelena Petushkova, Dennis Johnson, and Hans Mild.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Mehmed Uzun ranks 1,234 out of 1,347. Before him are Sabiha Bengütaş (1904), Yaşar Erkan (1911), Serdar Ortaç (1970), Candan Erçetin (1963), Cemil Turan (1947), and Mahsun Kırmızıgül (1969). After him are Jale İnan (1914), Hatı Çırpan (1890), Naim Talu (1919), Ali Beratlıgil (1931), Can Dündar (1961), and Nedim Gürsel (1951).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Mehmed Uzun ranks 146. Before him are Emine Semiye Önasya (1864), Memnon of Heraclea (null), Melih Cevdet Anday (1915), Rıfat Ilgaz (1911), Mehmet Emin Yurdakul (1869), and Oktay Rıfat Horozcu (1914). After him are Can Dündar (1961), Nedim Gürsel (1951), Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914), Akif Pirinçci (1959), Pınar Selek (1971), and Zehra Doğan (1989).

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