Award winners

• 2010 Adnan Binyazar
• 2009 Cemil Kavukçu
• 2008 Arif Damar
• 2007 Ahmet Oktay
• 2006 Tarık Dursun K.
• 2005 Latife Tekin
  Latife Tekin
  Latife Tekin is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. She was born in 1957 in Kayseri, Turkey. She continued her education in Istanbul. In 1983, her famous novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm was published. The magic realism in the book was drawn from the Anatolian folklore and traditions...
  
  
• 2004 Demir Özlü
• 2003 Selim İleri
• 2002 Tomris Uyar
• 2001 Erdal Öz
• 2000 Jale Parla
• 1999 Tahsin Yücel
• 1998 Nezihe Meriç
• 1997 Fakir Baykurt, Feyza Hepçilingirler
• 1996 Orhan Duru
• 1995 Nermi Uygur, Minâ Urgan
• 1994 Bilge Karasu
• 1993 Oktay Akbal, Vüs'at O. Bener
• 1992 Mehmet Fuat, Gülten Akın
  Gülten Akin
  Gülten Akın is a female poet, born in 1933. Her poetry is considered culturally significant to Turkey.-External links:* at Lyrikline.org, with audio, Turkish text, and translation into German....
  
  
• 1991 Cevdet Kudret, Fethi Naci
• 1990 Sabahattin Kudret Aksal
• 1989 Vedat Günyol
• 1988 İlhan Berk
  Ilhan Berk
  İlhan Berk was a leading contemporary Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry and was very influential among Turkish literary circles.-Biography:Berk was born in Manisa, Turkey in 1918 and received a teacher's training in Balıkesir...
  
  , Ferit Edgü
• 1987 Hilmi Yavuz
• 1986 Salâh Birsel
• 1985 Yaşar Kemal
  Yasar Kemal
  Yaşar Kemal, is a Turkish writer. He is one of Turkey's leading writers. He has long been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, on the strength of Memed, My Hawk....
  
  
• 1984 Turgut Uyar
• 1983 Pertev Naili Boratav, Haldun Taner
  Haldun Taner
  Haldun Taner is a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer. He was born on March 16, 1915 in Istanbul...
  
  
• 1982 No awarded
• 1981 Edip Cansever
  Edip Cansever
  Edip Cansever was a Turkish poet.-Biography:Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Cansever attended Trade Academy for some time, and worked as an antiquity salesman in Grand Bazaar, Istanbul...
  
  
• 1980 Oktay Rifat
• 1979 Adalet Ağaoğlu
  Adalet Ağaoğlu
  Adalet Ağaoğlu is a Turkish novelist and playwright.-Publishing career:As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey...
  
  
• 1978 Melih Cevdet Anday
  Melih Cevdet Anday
  Melih Cevdet Anday , Turkish poet and writer who has been one of the forefront poets of the Garip movement together with Orhan Veli and Oktay Rifat....
  
  
• 1977 Peride Celal
  Peride Celal
  Peride Celal is a Turkish author. She was born in İstanbul.Celal completed her high school education in Samsun and at Lycee Saint Pulcherie in İstanbul. She spent most of her childhood in Anatolia. After moving to İstanbul, Celal worked at Elektrik Şirketi and Neşriyat Bürosu. In 1944, she went to...
  
  , Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
  Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca
  Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was one the most prolific Turkish poets of the republican Turkey with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007, laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award .-Biography:His purist use of the Turkish language brought a new dimension to...
  
  

See also

• Sedat Simavi
• Turkish literature
  Turkish literature
  Turkish literature comprises both oral compositions and written texts in the Turkish language, either in its Ottoman form or in less exclusively literary forms, such as that spoken in the Republic of Turkey today...
  
  
• List of literary awards
• List of years in literature
• Literary award
  Literary award
  A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...