Hasan Ali Toptaş

Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 15 October 1958) is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. His first short story book Bir Gülüşün Kimliği (The Identity of A Laugh) was published in 1987. An important Turkish scholar, Yıldız Ecevit nicknames him "a postmodern modernist" and calls him "a Kafka in Turkish literature", in her work Türk Romanında Postmodernist Açılımlar (The Postmodernist Expansion in Turkish Literature). In fact, Hasan Ali Toptaş's 1999 Cevdet Kudret Literature Award winner Bin Hüzünlü Haz is, on the one hand, a postmodern novella in terms of pluralism, metafiction and intertextuality. On the other hand, it contains a lot of kafkaesque elements in terms of depicting an absurd, surreal and paradoxically mundane reality.

Hasan Ali Toptaş
Born (1958-10-15) 15 October 1958
Çal, Turkey
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
Period1987–present
GenreModernism, Post-Modernism
Website
hasanalitoptas.net

Works
  • Yalnızlıklar (Solitudes) - 1990
  • Ölü Zaman Gezginleri (The Dead Time Travelers) - 1993
  • Sonsuzluğa Nokta (Full Stop to Infinity) - 1993
  • Gölgesizler (The Shadowless) - 1995
  • Kayıp Hayaller Kitabı (The Book of Lost Dreams) - 1996
  • Ben Bir Gürgen Dalıyım (I am a Hornbeam Branch) - 1997
  • Bin Hüzünlü Haz (A-Thousand-Gloomy Pleasure) - 1999
  • Uykuların Doğusu (The East of Slumbers) - 2005
  • Harfler ve Notalar (Letters and Notes) - 2007
  • Heba (Reckless) - 2013
  • Kuşlar Yasına Gider (Birds Go to His Mourning) - 2016
  • Beni Kör Kuyularda - 2019

Works in English
  • Reckless - 2016
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