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Mehmed Uzun (1953 – October 10, 2007) was a contemporary Zaza-Kurdish writer and novelist. He was born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Although the Kurdish language was outlawed in Turkey from 1920 to 1990, he started to write in his mother tongue. As a writer, he achieved a great deal towards shaping a modern Kurdish literary language and reviving the Kurdish tradition of storytelling. From 1977 to 2005 he lived in exile in Sweden as a political refugee. During his time in Scandinavia, he became a prolific writer, author of a dozen Kurdish language novels and essays, which have made him a founding member of modern Kurdish literature in Kurmanji dialect. In June 2005 he returned to Istanbul, Turkey. He was a member of the PEN club and the Swedish writers association. On May 29, 2006, it was revealed that Uzun had been diagnosed with cancer.〔(Kurdish media -''Famous novelist Mehmed Uzun has cancer'' )〕 Following treatment at the Karolinska University Hospital of Stockholm, in Sweden he returned to Diyarbakir, Turkey, where he died, aged 54. ==Works== He published seven novels in Kurdish. Uzun published his first attempt at a modern Kurdish novel in 1985, ''Tu'' (You). After that he edited an anthology of Kurdish literature, the first of its kind. Critical success came with his novel "In the Shadow of a Lost Love" (''Siya Evînê''). The story fictionalizes a 1920s Kurdish intellectual's failed struggle to pursue both his love for a woman and his duty to fight the newly formed Turkish republic. His novels began to be translated into European languages in the 1990s. Two of his books have been published in Swedish: a collection of essays, ''Granatäppelblomning'' (The Pomegranate Flowers), and the novel ''I skuggan av en förlorad kärlek'' (In the Shadow of a Lost Love). In collaboration with Madeleine Grive, he has also published an international anthology, ''Världen i Sverige'' (The World in Sweden), a pioneering anthology of texts by writers who were not born in Sweden, but who are living and writing there. He also publishes in the journal of the Kurdish Institute of Paris, ''Kurmancî''. He won the ''Torgny Segerstedt'' Award for 2001 for his work in a narrative tradition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mehmed Uzun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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