Yazarlar Twitter'da neler yazıyor?

Oscar Wilde yaşasaydı, o ölümsüz sözlerini Twitter’dan paylaşır mıydı bilemeyiz ama her gün Oscar Wilde’ın bir özlü sözünü Twitter’da görmek mümkün.

Herkesin söyleyecek bir şeyleri olduğu Twitter dünyasında, ilginç bir şekilde yazarlar ya Twitter’a girmemeyi tercih ediyorlar ya da ürkek ürkek ilerleyip, bu sosyal alandaki kimliklerini temkinli bir şekilde oluşturuyorlar.

Twitter mesajlarını takipçileriyle paylaşan yazarlardan bazıları ve 140 karakteri nasıl kullandıkları…


Neil Gaiman

Twitter öncesi de inanılmaz bir hayran kitlesi olan, The Sandman çizgi romanlarının yazarı Gaiman, takipçileriyle her şeyini paylaşıyor. Romanları, çizgi romanları ve filmleri hakkında sorulan soruların çoğuna kişisel cevaplar veriyor, özel hayatını paylaşmaktan çekinmiyor.

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Elif Şafak

Uluslararası yazarlarımızdan Şafak, listemizde hiç kimseyi takip etmeyen tek kişi. Twitter’ı doğru bir platform olarak yazma sürecini, kitapları hakkında yazılanları, programını ve inandığı sosyal konuları paylaştığı bir alan olarak kullanıyor. Türkçe yazdığı Twitter mesajlarını hemen İngilizce’ye çevirerek paylaşan Şafak, genelde tutuk ve tek taraflı bir mesaj kaygısında.

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Football film from promising Turkish director scores big

Award-winning actor Volga Sorgu takes the role of writer and director this time with his football film ‘Kaledeki Yalnızlık’ (Loneliness in the Goal). Starring Numan Çakır, Tolga Sarıtaş and Nur Sürer, Sorgu’s debut feature proves to be a promising foray into storytelling as he uses football as a powerful and subtle metaphor for all things in life

When a football team loses 8-0 in director and writer Volga Sorgu’s debut feature Kaledeki Yalnızlık (Loneliness in the Goal), we know the film will not be about the team but the goalkeeper. The eight goals also show the audience the film will be about the protagonist’s despair and his sense of loss, with football being the metaphor for life with all its ups and downs.

In a perfect case of art imitating life, ex-goalkeeper Numan Çakır, who had to quit his two-decade career following a traffic accident, plays Nurettin, a goalkeeper who loses his wife and a bright future in football after a traffic accident. Left with his teenaged son Feyyaz (Tolga Sarıtaş), he continues playing in an amateur team, led by the shady club chair (Erkan Can), hoping to climb up to the bottom of the professional ranks, the third tier.

From the very first minutes, the film touches on diverse subjects such as coping with death, dysfunctional family relations, class differences, the decay of urban life, poverty, fraud and even touches on the lives of third-generation migrant Turks in Germany. Football as a metaphor nearly brushes all of these themes, the major one being the heavy burden of being a goalkeeper in a team game.

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Herotürk: Truth, justice and the Turkish way

The marriage of pop culture and Turkish nationalism continues with the new book ‘Hero Türk’ featuring adventures of all-Turkish child hero. Hürriyet Daily News talks to one of the key names behind all of these projects, journalist Fehmi Demirbağ.

Whether it is the Turkish vigilantes fighting against evil Israelis in today’s Middle East, or “Hunnic Turks” killing giant man-eating dragons in the 4th century, Turkey’s pop culture is devouring Turkish nationalism, repeating a cycle seen half a century ago.

While social media is fuelling and organizing demonstrations for human rights and democracy in recent history, pop culture seems to be taking the safe side with the status quo. The rising voice of the conservative Turkey is hoping to cash in on the sensitivities of young Turks rediscovering their nationalistic streaks.

The latest example of pop culture meeting with Turkish nationalism came in the form of HeroTürk, a book of the adventures of an all-Turkish child hero, which hit the book stores last week, to be followed with a comic book version due to be published next month. Created by journalist Fehmi Demirbağ and novelized by another journalist Hasan Taşkın, the full package includes a children’s book and a comic book, as well as two upcoming films and a cartoon.

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