(Turkish Edition) Journey to the Edge of Life بقلم Tezer Özlü ... Tezer Özlü, like Oğuz Atay, who shared the same fate with him at another pole, unexpectedly took anchor from our literature. This narrative, which combines the author and his authentic legend, is both an intense testament and a witness to life from a perspective of rare bitterness. Tezer Özlü is the gloomy princess of Turkish literature. (Back Cover) This book is the German version of the author's German-language text "Auf dem Spur eines Selbsmords" (In Search of a Suicide), which won the 1983 Marburg Literary Prize. In a sense, this book was recreated in our language by its author under the title Journey to the Edge of Life (1984).
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Tezer Özlü
Turkish writer. He is known for a small number of books, notably Cold Nights of Childhood and Journey to the Edge of Life. He is the brother of writer Demir Özlü and writer and translator Sezer Duru.
He was born in Simav. He spent his childhood in Simav, Ödemiş and Gerede, where his parents worked. He came to Istanbul when he was ten years old. She attended the Austrian Girls' High School; However, he did not graduate. He went abroad in 1961. From 1962 to 1963 he hitchhiked across Europe. In 1964, she married the theater actor and writer Güner Sümer, whom she met in Paris. They settled together in Ankara. During this period when Sümer worked at AST, Özlü worked as a German translator. In the 1963-64 season at AST, he played in Brendan Behan's play The Secret Army, directed by Sümer. He left Sumer and settled in Istanbul. Between 1967 and 1972, he stayed intermittently in the psychiatric clinics of different hospitals in Istanbul due to his illness. He wrote about his experiences starting from his childhood and these periods of his stay in the clinic in the book Cold Nights of Childhood.
In 1968, she married director Erden Kıral. From this marriage, his daughter Deniz was born in 1973. He received a scholarship and went to Berlin in 1981. In the meantime, he left the King. She met Hans Peter Marti, a Swiss-born artist living in Canada, and married Marti in 1984 and settled in Zurich. [1] She died there on 18 February 1986 due to breast cancer. His grave is in the Aşiyan Cemetery.
Özlü was portrayed by Yelda Reynaud in her ex-husband Erden Kıral's film Yolda, which tells about the events during the shooting of the movie Yol.