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
“Mutlu günler bir şeyler öğrenmek için iyi değildir; mutlu günler kendimizi kaybetmek için iyidir, gerçeklerden kaçmak için iyidir.”
“Happy days are not good for learning something; they are good for loosing ourselves, good for escaping from the truths!”
“Manen iyi hissetmek için bir tapınağa mı ihtiyacın var? Güzel bir bahçeye git!”
“You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!”
“* Savaş kararı mı aldın? O halde sen hastasın! Savaşa mı katıldın? O halde sen hastasın! Silah mı üretiyorsun? O halde sen hastasın! Hepsini reddet ve sağlıklı ol, insan ol, normal ol, gerçek bir adam ol!”
“Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!”
“Etrafındaki her şey çılgınken, sakin kalmak dâhicedir.”
“When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.”
“If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!”
“Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!”
“Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!”
“Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.”
“If everything is going very well in your life, don’t change any parameters; don’t even think about it!”
“If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!”
“Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!”
“Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!”
“We can’t live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!”
“All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!”
“In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!”
“In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!”
“If God is always on the side of the big battalions as Voltaire says, then, let us not waste our time with little detachments!”
“Today, I have seen a lonely giraffe attacked and eaten by ten lions. This cannot be God’s Order; this is obviously Devil’s Order! God is not here, even though the fools claim the opposite!”
“You can buy wisdom from nowhere; but for the foolishness, you don’t have to buy it; it is free and it is everywhere.”
“There are many paths to victory; choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat; choose the longest one!”
“No racist is domestic; they belong to the wildlife areas!”
“The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth!”
“Existence is more important than happiness; we can’t live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness!”
“A good quotation must be provocative; as provocative as to demolish an old wrong castle in the mind with a single strike!”
“It is an incurable act of desperation that men seek for certainty! It is like seeking for an unshakable place inside a shaking ship!”
“In the New Year, may not all your dreams come true, but may only all your good and right dreams come true, because men have evil dreams as well!”
“Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!”
“Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude!”
“A day without laugh is a day without life.”
“In defeat, look at the stars; in victory, look at the ground! From the stars, you get hope; from the ground, you get caution.”
“Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy.”
“All my possessions for a moment of time. This was Queen Elizabeth I’s last words. Rest assured that he who has the longest time is the richest of this universe!”
“If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live.”
“What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us.”
“A fence can protect you from cows but not from tanks! In life, there is no complete shield.”
“A country either elevates the ignorant to the level of the learned or it itself sinks down to the level of the ignorant.”
“Light has a battery life; darkness has none! Light is finite; darkness is infinite!”
“Darkness is stronger than light; because light must struggle to exist; but darkness exists even it does nothing!”
“Searching for the real faces of every face we met! This is what our life is!”
“A Turkish proverb says the one who speaks truth would be expelled from nine villages. This is true; but there always exist the tenth which embraces the truth! The tenth is the answer of the highness to the lowness!”
“On Plato’s door, it says let no one enter who does not know geometry. On Love’s door, it says let no one enter who does not know cry!”
“Anybody can be a believer; but anybody cannot be a good man! First, be good; then, in addition to this, be whatever you wish!”
“Idiots always keep burying the truths not knowing that even the stomachs of the graves cannot digest the truths and throw up!”
“Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!”
“If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!”
“Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff ‘sweet hope’ from it.”