Nedim G�rsel is a Turkish writer. In the late 1960s, he published novellas and essays in Turkish magazines. After graduating from Galatasaray High School in 1970, he studied at the Sorbonne. In 1974, he graduated from the Sorbonne's Department of Modern French Literature. In 1979, he received his doctorate in comparative literature after completing his dissertation on Louis Aragon and Nazim Hikmet. He returned to Turkey but the unrest there in 1980 persuaded him to go back to France. In 1976, G�rsel published A Summer without End, a collection of stories. For that collection, in 1977, G�rsel received Turkey's highest literary prize, the Prize of the Turkish Language Academy. After the 1980 Turkish coup d'�tat, a military tribunal charged that G�rsel's collection had slandered the Turkish army. In 1983, the Turkish military censored G�rsel's novel The First Woman. Although the Turkish authorities dismissed the charges against G�rsel, their actions made A Summer without End and The First Woman unavailable in Turkey for several years. In 2008, G�rsel published The Daughters of Allah. The book prompted the Turkish authorities to charge G�rsel with insulting religion. [More at Wikipedia]

April 5th, 1951 in Gaziantep (Age 73)