OYA BAYDAR Talks About ‘The Age of War, The Age of Hope”!

Özyeğin University will be hosting Oya Baydar, the most startling author of our recent history, on its Altunizade campus on April 14, Thursday to talk about the latest developments around the world within the framework of the novel “The Age of War, The Age of Hope”.

The talk organized jointly by Özyeğin University’s School of Arts and Sciences and the Literature Club will take place on the Altunizade campus on April 14, 2011, Thursday from 12:30 to 14:30. During the talk, the latest developments in the rapidly changing world will be discussed with reference to book “The Age of War, The Age of Hope” written by the author in 60s when she was just in her 20s. The talk is open to all Ozyegin University students and faculty as well as participants from outside the university.

The novel “The Age of War, The Age of Hope” sheds light on contemporary period while telling the story of the youth of half a century ago. The Age of War The Age of Hope authored by Oya Baydar is the story of the youth from any and all backgrounds who stands up to the country’s policy and world politics and their quest to find themselves and their own identities.

From the startling author of our recent history with all her novels and short stories

Born in 1940, Oya Baydar wrote her first novel when she was 17. She obtained her BA in Sociology from Istanbul University in 1964, and after graduation she started working as an assistant lecturer in the same department. During the social and political turmoil of the 1960s, she got actively involved in the socialist movement and quit writing fiction. In 1969, she was dismissed from her work at Istanbul University and she joined Hacettepe University in Ankara as assistant lecturer in Sociology. She was arrested during the coup d’état on March 12, 1971. Upon her release, she took part in the foundation and management of Turkish Socialist Workers’ Party and she worked as a columnist in the Yeni Ortam (New Environment) and the Politika (Politics) newspapers. She had to flee Turkey after the coup d’état on September 12, 1980, and lived in exile in Germany for 12 years. In the early ‘90s, she began writing fiction again and she still takes active part in the peace and democracy movement.