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Bilge Karasu

Died in 1995

Bilge Karasu was born on 9 January 1930 in Istanbul. After the Terakki lycée in Şişli, he studied philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Istanbul, and then continued his studies in Europe thanks to a Rockefeller scholarship. He worked in the foreign broadcasting service of Radio Ankara and translated several authors, including D. H. Lawrence, a translation awarded a prize in 1963. From 1974, he taught philosophy at Hacettepe University, in Ankara, where he died in July 1995.

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