Q: What were your first thoughts when you were approached about the project?Ī: I got excited about the idea that my work would appear on the Google homepage. I also love that he is naive and clear, and he lived life in a way that was unique to his personality. What I like most about his work is that he tells the truth ironically. Q: Why was this topic meaningful to you personally?Ī: Oğuz Atay is one of the best recent Turkish writers. Below, he shares his thoughts behind the making of this Doodle: Today’s Doodle was illustrated by Istanbul-based guest artist Enes Diriğ. It has since been translated into English, Dutch, and German, opening Atay’s seminal novel to non-Turkish readers around the world. All the while, he continued his teaching career and in 1975 was made an associate professor.Ītay’s “ Tutunamayanlar” was identified by UNESCO in 2002 as an important literary work in need of an English translation. In 1960, Atay became a lecturer at the Istanbul State Engineering and Architecture Academy, but it was the fiction he wrote in his downtime that came to define his legacy.Ītay entered the limelight of Turkish literature with the publication of “ Tutunamayanlar” in 1972, a towering literary achievement which he followed up with a rapid string of novels through the ‘70s. Raised in a well-connected family, he received a top education and went on to pursue a career in the field of civil engineering. Oğuz Atay was born on this day in 1934, in İnebolu, a coastal town on the Black Sea in the Kastamonu Province of Turkey. With his reliance on shifting narrative perspectives and blend of dreams and reality, Atay was among the first Turkish writers to explore the postmodern style known as metafiction. His 1972 novel “ Tutunamayanlar ” (“The Disconnected”) is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Turkish novels of the 20th century.
Today’s Doodle, illustrated by Istanbul-based guest artist Enes Diriğ, celebrates the 86th birthday of Turkish author, playwright, engineer, and professor Oğuz Atay.
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