Talip Apaydin
Talip Apaydin is a teacher and author. He was born in 1926 in Polatli, Ankara and is a graduate of the Çifteler Village Institute, the Hasanoglan High Village Institute, and the Gazi Educational Institute's Music Department. Apaydin has written for several prestigious literary journals such as Yücel, Fikirler, Yeditepe, Beraber, Yeni Ufuklar, Varlik, Imece, and Türk Dili. Choosing his main characters and themes from rural Anatolia, he is among a group of writers responsible for creating the "peasantry" trend in Turkish literature. His unpublished radio plays Yapilar Yapilirken and Otobüs Yarisi earned him the Annual Art Award of the Turkish Radio and Television (1970). His novels Tütün Yorgunu was awarded the Madarali Novel Prize (1976), while Köylüler, received the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize (1992).