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Yavuz Ekinci
Yavuz Ekinci was born in 1979 in the village of Yediboluk in Batman. He grew up in Mişrita, in a family very similar to the one described in his novel Cennetin Kayıp Toprakları. He graduated from the Faculty of Educational Science at Dicle University and currently teaches Turkish Literature to secondary school students. His first collection of short stories, Mayeser’in Uçusu (2004), won him the prestigious Yaşar Nabi Prize. He continued writing short stories, going on to publish Sırtımdaki Ölüler (2006) and Bana İsmail Deyin (2008). His stories have been translated into German, English, Japanese, Greek, Persian and Kurdish, and published in several magazines. Having written three short story collections, it was time to turn his hand to the novel. His first novel, Tene Yazılan Ayetler (published in 2010), is about the meeting in Diyarbakɪr of Utanapisht from Gilgamesh, the man whom  the gods chastised with eternal life, and Berzah, who is researching the life of the writer Asvas, whose dead body lies in a Hezbollah house of  mourning. His novel, Cennetin Kayıp Toprakları, which was published in 2012, relates the tales of the women who survived the most tragic incident of the twentieth century, the Armenian Genocide. The story is told through the eyes of the protagonist’s son and grandson. In the same year, Tayfur Aydın adapted the novel for cinema under the title İz/Reç. It won the Onat Kutlar Special Jury Prize at the 31st Istanbul Film Festival. The video artist Fikret Atay made a video of the novel, entitled Cennetin Kayıp Toprakları, which was shown at several exhibitions. His novel, Rüyası Bölünenler, published in 2014, is about the journey from Berlin to Batman, and from Batman to the Qandil Mountains, undertaken by a political asylum seeker living in Germany in order to find his guerilla brother, from whom he has had no word in many years. Günün Birinde, which describes the anguish, despair, the flight and annihilation of the inhabitants of a valley awaiting the arrival of unspecified enemies was published in 2016. Günün Birinde was the first of Ekinci’s novels to be translated into several languages. In 2017 it was translated into German and the novel was published by Verlag Kunstmann under the title “Der Tag, an dem ein mann vom Berg Amar kam”. His novel, Gürol Tombul was adapted for the stage and performed in the theatre under the title Ravan: Bir At Masalı (Ravan: The Tale of a Horse). The artist Ahmet Güneştekin created two paintings inspired by the novel, entitled, “Amar ve Sara’nın masumiyeti” (The Innocence of Sara and Amar) and “Amar ve Sara” (Amar and Sara). The novel that inspired Ahmet Güneştekin’s paintings was later published under the title Amar ve Sara. ​The novel, Peygamberin Endişesi, that is about the quest of Mehdi, a man who is convinced he has been visited by Gabriel, the angel of revelation, and that he has been sent to the earth as a prophet, was published in 2018. ​ In 2016, Yavuz Ekinci represented Turkey at a European writers’ conference held in Berlin which was attended by writers from more than 30 countries. He participated in the “Me, Europa” project devised by the Schauspiel Dortmund Theatre, to which thirteen writers were invited, with the monologue Bana İsmail Deyin (Call me Ismail). Bana İsmail Deyin is currently being performed in Dortmund. Yavuz Ekinci has published a total of nine books and is one of the most acclaimed and prolific young writers of Turkish Literature. ​Yavuz Ekinci draws his inspiration from the rich atmosphere of Southeastern Turkey, where pain and hope walk hand in hand, and where every glance, every song, every landscape is nothing less than magical. Amar ve Sara (talk) 07:13, 17 February 2019 (UTC)