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Author Adalet Ağaoğlu was laid to rest today (July 15) after a funeral ceremony at Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, the capital.
Along with her relatives and fellow novelists, politicians, including Republican People's Party (CHP) Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, attended the funeral.
Fuat Sümer, Ağaoğlu's nephew, accepted condolences, the Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.
After the ceremony, she was buried at Cebeci Cemetery.
She had been in intensive care prior to her death yesterday.
About Adalet Ağaoğlu
Adalet Ağaoğlu was a novelist and playwright. She is considered one of the foremost novelists of Turkey's 20th-century literature. She also wrote essays, memoirs, and short stories. As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey. Considered to be one of the most important living authors in Turkey a revered intellectual, her tightly constructed prose is a balance between a realistic milieu of Turkey which she knows firsthand and the broader, more humanistic elements of social pressure and gender prejudice. In an unfamiliar urban world, her fictional newcomers to modernity struggle with age-old issues complicated by perplexing political, religious, economic and social forces. She was rewarded with numerous honors besides the literary awards she won in the fields of novel, short story and drama. For her perception of subtle and overt changes in Turkey's modern society and her writing entitled "Modernism and Social Change", Adalet Ağaoğlu received the "Turkish Presidency Merit Award" in 1995. In 1998, Ağaoğlu received "Honorary Ph.D." from Anadolu University followed by the "Ph.D. of Humane Letters" from the Ohio State University. She was among the founders of the Human Rights Association (İHD), which was established in 1986. She left the İHD in July 2005. In 2010, she donated all her books to Boğaziçi University in İstanbul. Her archive has been preserved in a room in Boğaziçi University Library. The room was designed in control of the late writer. Adalet Ağaoğlu Research Center has also been established within the body of the university. Ağaoğlu was born in Nallıhan, Ankara on October 23, 1929. She was given an Honorary PhD by Boğaziçi University in 2018. Source: Wikipedia |
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