İnce Mehmet / Memed, My Hawk
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Autor:
Yaşar Kemal
Country:
Turkey (TR)
Book Theme:
Contemporary writers of your country
Publisher:
Publishing House
Publishing Year:
1955
Yaşar Kemal ( Kemal Sadık Gökçeli) was a Turkish writer and human rights activist and one of Turkey’s leading writers. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of Memed, My Hawk. Kemal was a major contributor to Turkish literature in the early years after Turkish fell into decline as a literary language after Atatürk’s language reforms of the 1930s.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
This is the story of a young boy from a village in Anatolia, named Memed who is abused and beaten by the local landowner, Abdi Ağa. Having endured great cruelty towards himself and his mother, Döne, Memed finally escapes with his beloved girl named Hatçe. Abdi Ağa catches up with the young couple, but only manages to capture Hatçe, while Memed is able to avoid his pursuers and runs into the mountains. There he joins a band of brigand. Hatçe is then imprisoned and eventually dies while Memed tries to protect themselves on a mountain, but not before giving birth to Memed’s son, who is also named Memed. Instead of surrendering and being granted amnesty by the government, he rides into town to find his enemy, on a horse given to him by the townspeople. He finds Abdi Ağa in the south-east corner of his house and shoots him in the chest. But Memed gets away. He returns to the mountains and gives his son in protection of Iraz, Hatçe’s friend from the jailhouse.
