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Kâmuran Şipal

1926 – 2019

Turkish novelist and translator

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Lived 1926 – 2019 (aged 92). Kâmuran Şipal was a Turkish translator and writer.

Kâmuran Şipal (1926, Adana – 18 September 2019, Istanbul), was a Turkish novelist, story writer and translator.

Şipal graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Letters, German Language Department. In the following years, he translated from German to Turkish, such German writers as Franz Kafka, Alfred Adler, Ingeborg Bachmann, Wolfgang Borchert, Heinrich Böll, Alfred Brauchle, Bertolt Brecht, Max Brod, Elias Canetti, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Hans Graber, Günter Grass, Carl Gustav Jung, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Musil, Bernhard Zeller, Hans Zulliger and Hermann Hesse. Şipal won the Turkish Language Association Story Contest in 1953. He received a Sait Faik Story Award for his novel named Elbiseciler Çarşısı and seven years before his death, was awarded the Orhan Kemal Novel Award (2011) for his novel named Sırrımsın Sırdaşımsın.

Works Story Beyhan (1962) Elbiseciler Çarşısı (1964) Büyük Yolculuk (1969) Buhûrumeryem (1971) Köpek İstasyonu (1988) Gece Lambalarının Işığında (collective storys, YKY, 2009)

Novels Demir Köprü (1998), Sırrımsın Sırdaşımsın (YKY 2010).

Other Çağdaş Alman Hikâyesi (1962)

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Istanbul University Faculty of Letters
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İsmet Kâmuran Şipal

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Who was Kâmuran Şipal?

Turkish novelist and translator (1926–2019)

When was Kâmuran Şipal born?

Kâmuran Şipal was born on 24 September 1926 in Adana.

When did Kâmuran Şipal die?

Kâmuran Şipal died on 18 September 2019 in Bakırköy.

What was Kâmuran Şipal's occupation?

Kâmuran Şipal was a translator and writer.

What nationality was Kâmuran Şipal?

Kâmuran Şipal was Turkish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Kâmuran Şipal

· Wikidata: Q6598014

· DBpedia: Kâmuran Şipal

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