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Adnan Özyalçıner

Adnan Çelik (born 1934 in İstanbul) is a Turkish author known as Adnan Özyalçıner.

His real name is Adnan Çelik. He is the son of Ayşe Hanım and weaver Ahmet Nuri Özyalçıner. He was born and raised in Istanbul to a family with Bosniak roots. He graduated from İstanbul Boys Highschool and studied Turkology at the Literature Faculty of İstanbul University. In 1967 he married poet Sennur Sezer. He worked more than 20 years as a proofreader at the ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper. From 1974 to 1989 he was the secretary general of the Turkish Writers' Union. In 1981 he was brought to the position of Vice President of YAZKO. He worked as the editor-in-chief of literary magazines, including ''Yazko Literature'', ''Yazko Translation'' and ''Hürriyet Gösteri''. Provided by Wikipedia