Cumhur Oranci
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Rustu Cumhur Oranci is a Turkish writer and literary translator. He left Turkey before the coup d'état of 12 September 1980 and for some time he stayed in Europe
and worked for leftist daily Aydinlik. He became a wireless operator on merchant marine vessels and navigated on Egon Oldendorff, (Lübeck, Germany) ships as Radio Officer. He wrote his seafarers memoirs in a fantastic-realistic language in his first novel "Butterfly'in Intihar Seferi" (The suicide voyage of the steamer S/S "Butterfly") published by Telos Publishing House of Istanbul in 1991.
He is currently living in Istanbul and working as a literary translator.
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and worked for leftist daily Aydinlik. He became a wireless operator on merchant marine vessels and navigated on Egon Oldendorff, (Lübeck, Germany) ships as Radio Officer. He wrote his seafarers memoirs in a fantastic-realistic language in his first novel "Butterfly'in Intihar Seferi" (The suicide voyage of the steamer S/S "Butterfly") published by Telos Publishing House of Istanbul in 1991.
He is currently living in Istanbul and working as a literary translator.