Aras Onur
Aras Onur is a Turkish author, poet, and columnist.
Early life
Aras Onur was born in Ankara and is a graduate of TED Ankara College and University of Ankara. He started his literary career in the early 2000s. Openly gay, he has been often associated with local LGBT literature.He is often identified as a socialist columnist in the media, although his conservative tendencies are also often noted.
Aras Onur was pointed as mastermind of "Kindle a Candle" protests, a wave of civil series of unrest in Turkey began on 11 September 2015. The protesters were led by a common manifest released by columnists of a national newspaper named Karsi, in which the slogan "Kindle a Candle, Stand Out" was captioned.
Career
His first book of poetry was published in 2004, called Sudan Masallar, integrating a wordplay in Turkish which could be construed either as "tales from the water" or "arbitrary tales". His synopsis text for a short film was awarded the second place by Istanbul Bilgi University in 2007. During the same year one of his plays, Üç Kapı, made its theatrical debut. He was listed as one of the contemporary Turkish poets awaiting translation, among Cemal Sureya, Birhan Keskin, Turgut Uyar, and Edip Cansever.He had written for Karsi columns for two years as the acting-editor until he resigned from office in October 2016, following to ban of accessing to paper's website.
Corpus
Books
| Year | Title | Class of Literature | Notes | - |
| 2004 | Sudan Masallar | Poetry | The initial foray of the author into poetry. | - |
| 2014 | Beylerbeyi'nde Son Tango | Poetry | - | |
| 2015 | His Secret Diary | Novel | Roman-a-clef; based on a true story of a secret agent working for the Turkish intelligence agency. | - |
| 2017 | Direnc, Onur ve Dahasi | Academic | Editor for an LGBTQ rights book consisting of ten chapters. | - |
| 2018 | ''Pars ile Porsuk' | Novel | Roman-a-clef; based on a true bromance story of a gay hero narrator and his buddy. |