Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (died 2015)

Yaşar Kemal

Turkish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)

Yaşar Kemal was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent, who wrote in Turkish and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk.