Aras Onur

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Aras Onur
Born
Onur Erkan [1]

(1982-04-23) 23 April 1982 (age 41)[ citation needed ]
Ankara, Turkey
StatusSingle
NationalityTurkish
Occupation(s)Author, poet, stagewriter, screenwriter
Years active2004–present

Aras Onur (born 23 April 1982) is a Turkish author, poet, and columnist.

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Early life

Aras Onur was born in Ankara and is a graduate of TED Ankara College and University of Ankara. He started his literary career in the early 2000s. [2] Openly gay, he has been often associated with local LGBT literature. [3]

He is often identified as a socialist columnist in the media, although his conservative tendencies are also often noted. [4]

Aras Onur was pointed as mastermind of "Kindle a Candle" protests, a wave of civil series of unrest in Turkey began on 11 September 2015. [5] The protesters were led by a common manifest released by columnists of a national newspaper named Karsi, in which the slogan "Kindle a Candle, Stand Out" was captioned. [6]

Career

His first book of poetry was published in 2004, called Sudan Masallar, integrating a wordplay in Turkish which could be construed either as "tales from the water" or "arbitrary tales". His synopsis text for a short film (Gıyabında Cam Kadeh) ("The Wineglass in absentia" in English) was awarded the second place by Istanbul Bilgi University in 2007. During the same year one of his plays, Üç Kapı (Eng: "Three Doors"), made its theatrical debut. He was listed as one of the contemporary Turkish poets awaiting translation, among Cemal Sureya, Birhan Keskin, Turgut Uyar, and Edip Cansever. [7]

He had written for Karsi columns for two years as the acting-editor until he resigned from office in October 2016, following to ban of accessing to paper's website.

Corpus

Books

YearTitleClass of LiteratureNotes
2004Sudan MasallarPoetryThe initial foray of the author into poetry.
2014Beylerbeyi'nde Son TangoPoetry
2015 (expected)His Secret DiaryNovel Roman-a-clef; based on a true story of a secret agent working for the Turkish intelligence agency.
2017Direnc, Onur ve DahasiAcademicEditor for an LGBTQ rights book consisting of ten chapters.
2018Pars ile PorsukNovel Roman-a-clef; based on a true bromance story of a gay hero narrator and his buddy.
2018Paris'ten DondugumdePoetry [8]

Stageplays

YearTitleRoleNotes
2007Three DoorsStagewriterPerformed by a small theatre in 2007.
2015 The Unknown Accessory Adaptor and co-writerBased on a tale of Okan Cem Çırakoğlu. In production.

Released Works

DateTitleClassIssue
2007 Waiting for Godot Adaptation of Samuel Beckett's stageplayKul Oyku
2014 Jan.Cay / TeaPoemHayal Quarterly Magazine, Issue 48 [9]
2014 Sep. Juan Short taleHayal Quarterly Magazine, Issue 51 [10]
2016 MayDie WhyTranslated PoemOff the Coast, Maine's International Poetry Journal Volume XXII, No.2 [11]
2016 June, 23Leave Me Not, Geodesy, LollipopTranslated PoemsFive 2 One Literary Magazine, #thesideshow 23 June 2016 [12]

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  9. ↑ "Hayal Issue 48". Hayal. Hayal Yayincilik ve Telif Hakları Ajansi. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Hayal Issue 51". Hayal. Hayal Yayincilik ve Telif Hakları Ajansi. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  11. ↑ "Off the Coast, Spring 2016 Contributors Note". Off the Coast. Off the Coast Maine's International Poetry Journal. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
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