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
“When the winter comes, be very happy; because the spring comes only if the winter comes!”
“Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.”
“Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet!”
“An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!”
“You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is!”
“Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!”
“Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!”
“You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!”
“Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!”
“When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!”
“On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!”
“Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!”
“We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!”
“Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility!”
“We always talk about human salvation. But we must first decide whether we deserve salvation?”
“Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!”
“In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!”
“Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys!”
“If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!”
“Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!”
“Bir su damlası için en güzel ev bir yapraktır ve bir insan için: İyilik. İyilik, içinde sürekli yaşadığın evin olsun!”
“For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!”
“Kendi varoluşun için mücadele et ve bunu yaparken başkalarına adaletli ol! Bu evrende başka da bir işin yok!”
“Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!”
“Neşeli fakir, bir gülüşle zengindir; somurtkan zengin, bir külçe altınla fakirdir.”
“Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.”
“In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!”
“If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!”
“There are no ‘perfect liars’ in the world; there are only ‘perfect believers’ who believe in even the most obvious lies!”
“When you close your mouth, your ears will be bigger!”
“In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.”
“Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!”
“War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!”
“I like the masks; because the real face of the mask is again itself!”
“Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind!”
“If you haven’t admired anybody in your whole life, you are the best candidate to be the world’s greatest megalomaniac!”
“If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!”
“If you have a guru, leave him; if you don’t have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean’s wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!”
“No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!”
“If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place!”
“Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!”
“Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!”
“Whenever you find a good idea, search for the owner to honour him!”
“I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds!”
“In the distant future, I don’t want to be remembered; I want to remember!”
“There are moments too where the mighty death feels itself desperate! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!”
“If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!”
“A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together!”
“The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!”
“If you think or fear too much, you can’t get too far!”