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Hüsnü Arkan

Born 1958 · Türkiye

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    Orhan Kemal 2015 · Winner

    Hırsız ve Burjuva

    Title translated by AI:“The Thief and the Bourgeois”

    Hüsnü Arkan · 56 when first published

    Novel · Satire, Crime, Politics

    AI-generated summary:Born on the day of the 1980 coup to an accountant and a teacher, Evren grows up in a poor neighbourhood whose people, from a girl living off the rubbish dumps to a thief and a tycoon, are bound together by theft.