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Yaşar Kemal
Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015).
Born October 6th, 1922 in Gökçedam.
Died February 28th, 2015 at 92 years old in Istanbul (multiple organ dysfunction syndrome).
Occupations
journalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter, short story writer, translator, writer
Wikipedia
It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks