Mehmet Murat ildan
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ENGLISH CV
EDUCATION LIFE
Contemporary Turkish playwright, novelist and thinker Mehmet Murat ildan was born in Elazig on May 16, in the Eastern part of Turkey. Due to his father's occupation, he continued his studies in capital Ankara. In 1982, high school diploma - as a first place winner - was awarded by Ankara Private Yenisehir College.
He spent one year in English Preparatory School in Ankara (at the Middle East Technical University - METU). Then in 1983, he took courses from the Department of Electronics at METU Campus in Gaziantep city as a full-time student.
In 1988, he obtained B.Sc. degree in Economics with "Certificate of Honour" (at METU in Ankara). In the same year, he also obtained a Turkish Government Scholarship by the Ministry of Education for Master and Ph.D. degrees in European Union Economics.
In 1989, he spent 8 months in an Intensive French Course at "Centre Audio-Visuel de Langues Modernes" (CAVILAM) in Vichy - France.
In 1990, he took courses in Money-Finance and Banking as a full-time student at the University of Louis-Pasteur (ULP) in Strasbourg-France. In the same year, he took advanced courses in English for 6 months, at the Cambridge Centre for Languages in Cambridge - England.
In 1991, he got Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Essex in England. The thesis title is: "The Presence of Bubbles in Stock Prices and Stock Market Crashes: Theory, Evidence and Economic Policy."
In 1994, while doing his Ph.D., he did his military service in Turkey.
In 1997, he was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics by the University of Essex. The thesis title is: "Private Behaviour and Feedback Economic Policy: Theory and Econometric Evidence from the United Kingdom."
LITERARY CAREER
His literary career started in 1993 with a poetry book called Bright Candles; it was written in English in England and published in Turkey in 1995. In 1997, a poem from this book was published in the Georgian Blue Poetry Anthology.
Between the years 1993 - 1998, he did not write anything literary. In 1998, he wrote stories for 6 months.
In 1999, he left his economics occupation.
From the year 2000 onwards, he started writing plays; he became a professional writer.
He has published 7 plays and 25 stories. His novels "Antiquary Arago's Diary," "Roses underneath Paris" and “The First Sorrows of Young Werther” and his story book "Lovers of Samos Island" have also been published.
Three of his plays, Master Moliere is Marrying, Galileo Galilei & Emmanuel Arago's Diary, have been accepted to the Repertory of Turkish State Theatre. Also, his plays Eyes of Magic, Beggar's Prophecy and Emmanuel Arago's Diary have been included in the repertoire of Istanbul City Theatre.
Six of his plays have been translated into English by Yurdanur Salman, a well-known linguist in Istanbul.
His play Eyes of Magic was partly published in the "Absinthe - New European Writing" literary magazine in the USA. His play Master Moliere is Marrying has performed by Antalya State Theatre and Eyes of Magic has performed by Istanbul City Theatre.
Writer is a member of "International P.E.N. -Turkish P.E.N. Association" in Istanbul.
AWARDS
His play "Eyes of Magic" got the "Best Play Award" in Istanbul Kadiköy Municipality National Playwriting Competition" in 2000.
Another play, "Beggar's Prophecy," became a finalist in "AQT 2005 Vancouver Canada International Playwriting Competition."
His story "Housefly" obtained the "Secondary Place Award" in Samim Kocagöz
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“Kılıçtan, oktan, mızraktan ve yumruktan ne kadar uzakta durursan o kadar uygarlaşırsın!”
“Bir deniz feneri olman için her türlü fırtınaya, her türlü yalnızlığa karşı koyacak kadar güçlü olman gerek ve içinde kuvvetli bir ışığa sahip olman gerek!”
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“Salyangozların Dünyası’nda yaşıyoruz! İnsanoğlu aşırı derecede yavaş! Her kim sınırlı bir yaşama sahipse, onun yavaş olma hakkı yoktur! İşler hızlı yapılmalı! Yavaşlık, ölümsüzlere aittir!”
“Eğer zihnin yorgunsa, git tarlalarda çalış!”
“Eğer dürüstsen, azınlıktasın; eğer akıllıysan, azınlıktasın; eğer hiçbir dinsel saçmalığa inanmıyorsan azınlıktasın; eğer sürüde değilsen, azınlıktasın! Ne şerefli bir ayrıcalıktır bu çeşit azınlıklarda olmak!”
“Bir kırlangıç gibi hızlıca yükselirken, unutma ki bir taş gibi de çabucak düşebilirsin!”
“İnsan sıklıkla önemsiz şeyleri mühimser ve mühim şeyleri önemsemez!”
“Hayalin nedir? Dünyadaki en ünlü adam mı olmak? Ne aptalca bir hayalin var! Bütün dünyayı bir orduyla fethetmek mi? Ne ilkel bir hayalin var! Milyonlarca dolar mı kazanmak? Ne açgözlü bir hayalin var! Hayallerini sorgula!”
“Şehir bir tımarhanedir, orada çok durma, delirirsin! Doğaya git, Akıllıların Tapınağı’na!”
“Bilgelik, bir adamın ulaşabileceği en yüksek mevkidir!”
“Her şey olabilir; bu evrenin tam kuralı budur! Bu kurala karşı en iyi savunma şudur: Panik yapma!”
“Aşk, abartılmış sevgidir; sevgi, abartılmamış aşktır! Her zaman her şeyde ölçülü ol!”
“Kötümser olmak birisinin kendi bacaklarını ve kollarını kesmesidir; yalnızca iyimser bir adamın hareket etme yeteneği vardır!”
“Aradığını bulman için, ne aradığını unutmalısın ilk önce!”
“Hayat yolculuğunda her zaman aptal insanlara rastlayabilirsin; onlara, mumun karanlığa davrandığı gibi davranmalısın: Onları aydınlat!”
“Ovalar seni aldatır; hayatın kolay olduğunu düşünmene yol açarlar! Dağlar seni asla aldatmaz; sana gerçekleri öğretirler! Dağlara git!”
“When chasing a hare, you must have more than one greyhounds about you; when one of them has failed, my dear neighbour, you call to the next ‘Get it!”
“The theatre is a machine of transformations: everything is transformed into another thing; a bald man has thick hair on his head; a man with strong legs gains a limp and a sharp-eyed person becomes blind; an actor who is an atheist immediately turns into the most pious priest on earth! ~”
“An actor should have not one face but a thousand faces; like the phoenix which carries a print of each animal, an actor should carry a print of each human being!”
“Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step!”
“If the quality of the people got better as they aged, how good that would be, don’t you think so? Then we would put all the swindlers, crooks, usurers, robbers, hucksters, and gamblers we could find into a barrel and wait for some years, until their characters could leave an exquisite taste on all palates.”
“We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!”
“A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.”
“Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!”
“We should extinguish not candles, but torches, my good neighbour; we should fell not shrubs but trees: we should kill one giant instead of ten dwarfs!.. When there is an ostentatious cock crowing all over the place, what is the use of killing one insignificant chick? In a war you have to kill the king first; thus you can put an end to the battle more quickly!”
“A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don’t you ever forget this!”
“I think this man is a bit crazy, but aren’t we all a little crazy anyway?”
“Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals!”
“A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn’t know how to swim finds himself at its bottom!”
“If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!”
“London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!”
“What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!”
“How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle’s egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?”
“Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!”
“May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience!”
“To life! There can never be anything more important than life! To life, my friends!”
“Typewriter keys can’t be blamed because of what has been typed on the typewriter; the one who committed the crime is the one who used the typewriter; the one who typed on the keyboard!”
“To delete our memory to zero! A completely new life! . . This is a fantastic idea!”
“Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus.”
“A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver.”
“The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character that he can pick up with his claws. Sometimes he goes round hungry for a week, he cannot catch any characters; and sometimes characters rain on him like heavy rain.”
“No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.”
“For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!”
“I only want to remind you what weak creatures human beings are. Even people who seem to have wills of steel have serious weaknesses! At those moments of weakness, will power breaks into a thousand pieces.”
“The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt people is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!”
“A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!”
“Think of people like bottles full of a liquid inside but without labels; smell the bottle, pour out what is inside and study it carefully. Never mind the labels; pretend that they don’t exist! Labels are misleading!”