Adnan Çelik (born 1934 in
İstanbul) is a Turkish author known as Adnan Özyalçıner.
His real name is Adnan Çelik. He is the son of Ayşe Hanım and weaver Ahmet Nuri Özyalçıner. He was born and raised in Istanbul to a family with
Bosniak roots.[2] He graduated from
İstanbul Boys Highschool and studied
Turkology at the Literature Faculty of
İstanbul University. In 1967 he married poet
Sennur Sezer. He worked more than 20 years as a proofreader at the Cumhuriyet newspaper. From 1974 to 1989 he was the secretary general of the
Turkish Writers' Union. In 1981 he was brought to the position of Vice President of YAZKO. He worked as the editor-in-chief of literary magazines, including Yazko Literature, Yazko Translation and Hürriyet Gösteri.[3]
Works
Stories
A compilation of the first four-story books by the author, thinking of the youth, was published by Gendaş Publications in 1991 with the title Taş. The author's own selected stories from the books from Panayır till Sağanak was published by Dünya Publications in 2003.
Panayır (1960)
Sur (1963)
Yağma (1971)
Gözleri Bağlı Adam (1977)
Cambazlar Savaşı Yitirdi (1991)
Alaycı Öyküler (1991)
Sağanak (1993) (First published in 1972 under the title Yıkım Günleri. In the new edition he added two new stories.)
^Özyalçıner, Adnan; Sezer, Sennur (2012). Masal Okuyorum: Masal Evinden en Güzel Masallar [I'm Reading Stories: The Most Beautiful Tales from the Story House] (in Turkish). Alfa Yayınları.
ISBN978-6051063751.
Sources
Sivri, Medine (November 2013).
"Eskişehir'in Kültür ve Edebiyat Elçileri: Şairler ve Eskişehir" [Culture and Literature Ambassadors of Eskişehir: Poets and Eskişehir]. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (in Turkish). 14 (Special Issue): 73–102 – via dergipark.