BIOGRAPHY OF AUTHOR
Oguz Atay was created on Sept, 12, 1934, in Inebolu, Kastamonu. His father Cemil Atay was a member of Parliament for three consecutive periods ahead of the first democratic elections in 1950. Having been schooled in Ankara in Maarif Koleji, which was one of the prominent condition colleges intended for the children of bureaucrats and rich traders. Afterward he studied in the Civil Executive Department of Istanbul Specialized University in 1951.
Following graduating in 1957, Atay was utilized as a teacher at the Turki State Executive and Architecture Academy (now Yildiz Technological University) in 1960. would still be a lecturer in the school when he passed away. However , Atay had something in mind while using the word game to describe his life. This individual lived critically, but he did not believe that way. What he do were issues he was officially supposed to do. His life as an engineer- academic would not reflect his character. Certainly, his persona was not extrinsic.
According to his college or university yearbook, Atay was an interesting type among his colleagues. The yearbook talks about his accuracy. Oguz Atay under no circumstances lived the life span of a specialist fiction copy writer. He was a professor of engineering who wrote books and reports in his personal life. He never did find a second imprint of any of his books. And some of his literature could just be published after his death. Depending on this sort of staff, some people called Atay the European Kafka.
Oguz Atay died young, having been just 43 when he died. His existence as a copy writer lasted only seven years. His 1st novel Tutunamayanlar was honored the TRT (Turkish The airwaves and Television) Novel Reward in 1970 and published in 1971-72. His name was first heard with his first novel Tutunamayanlar in 1970. Even so, he released his novels rapidly one after one other. After Tutunamayanlar was printed in 1972, this individual published his second story Tehlikeli Oyunlar (Dangerous Games).
The year 1975 was an enormous one pertaining to Atay. He published 3 books consecutively in the same year: Korkuyu Beklerken (Looking for the Fear), the only short account collection of the writer, Bir Bilim Adaminin Romani (The Novel of any Scientist), the biographic new on Mustafa Inan, certainly one of Atays professors in college or university, and Oyunlarla Yasayanlar, his only episode script. Atay wrote several things including a personal journal, that was published in 1987, a decade after his death. Great unfinished book Eylembilim (The Science of Action) was published in 1998. Unfortunately, Oguz Atay suffered with a mind tumor and may not end his previous novel. The eccentric writer died on December, 13, 1977, in Istanbul.