Yılmaz Onay
Yilmaz Onay | |
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| Born | 20 April 1937 Gaziantep, Turkey |
| Died | 9 January 2018 (aged 80) |
| Occupation | Playwright · theatre director · translator · novelist |
| Genre | Non-Aristotelian drama · Epic theatre · Dialectical theatre |
Yılmaz Onay (20 April 1937 – 9 January 2018) was a Turkish author, theatre director and translator.
He translated plays, which most of them are known plays of Bertolt Brecht, stories, novels, books of poems and non-fiction books from German to Turkish and write plays and novels; all published. As a director, he staged most of Brecht's works, in a theatre called Epic Theatre which he was one of the frontiers of this theatre movement in Turkey. Onay's first accomplishment as director was, staging a known play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich written by Brecht.