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WRITER

Mehmed Uzun

1953 - 2007

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Mehmed Uzun (January 1, 1953 – October 10, 2007) was a Kurdish writer and novelist born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Though the Kurdish language was outlawed in Turkey from 1920 to 1990, he started to write in it and achieved much toward shaping a modern Kurdish literary language and reviving the Kurdish tradition of storytelling. In 1977–2005 he lived in exile in Sweden as a political refugee, becoming a prolific writer, author of a dozen Kurdish-language novels and essays, which made him a founding member of Kurdish literature in Kurmanji dialect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehmed Uzun has received more than 36,898 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mehmed Uzun is the 5,601st most popular writer (down from 5,136th in 2019), the 1,117th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 1,006th in 2019) and the 139th most popular Turkish Writer.

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  • 37k

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  • 41.78

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mehmed Uzun ranks 5,601 out of 5,755Before him are Daniel Kehlmann, Ruskin Bond, Izzat Ghazzawi, Daína Chaviano, Harry Turtledove, and Chen Danqing. After him are Dick King-Smith, Naja Marie Aidt, Michael Parenti, John Toll, Alice Sebold, and Alyson Noël.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Mehmed Uzun ranks 438Before him are Mindy Sterling, Alif Hajiyev, Søren Busk, Reneta Indzhova, Derek Daly, and Chen Danqing. After him are Judith Curry, Bernt Johansson, David Thompson, Keith Allen, Hiroshi Kaneda, and Jay O. Sanders. Among people deceased in 2007, Mehmed Uzun ranks 324Before him are Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Brad Delp, Hans Sturm, Dusty Anderson, Teresa Brewer, and Roger Beaufrand. After him are F. Albert Cotton, David Halberstam, Sidney Coleman, Kevin DuBrow, Tamás Gábor, and Dan Fogelberg.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Mehmed Uzun ranks 1,117 out of 1,301Before him are Nilüfer (1955), Ruhi Sarıalp (1924), Cem Yılmaz (1973), Okan Buruk (1973), Cemil Turan (1947), and Hedo Türkoğlu (1979). After him are Merih Demiral (1998), Engin Altan Düzyatan (1979), Ayşe Erzan (1949), Semih Kaplanoğlu (1963), Meltem Cumbul (1969), and Mehmet Topal (1986).

Among WRITERS In Turkey

Among writers born in Turkey, Mehmed Uzun ranks 139Before him are Can Dündar (1961), Leyla Erbil (1931), Oktay Rıfat Horozcu (1914), Mateja Matevski (1929), Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914), and Nedim Gürsel (1951). After him are Akif Pirinçci (1959) and Zehra Doğan (1989).