Çağdaş Çetinkaya

Çağdaş Çetinkaya (born Agust 6 1985 in İzmir) is a Turkish author, poet and novelist. He is a student in the Dokuz Eylül University Fine Arts Faculty. His poems and articles were published in the reviews altZine, Times, Varlık, Kaos GL, Yasakmeyve, Kırkaltı Karakalem, Bireylikler, Kan-Dil, Öykü Teknesi, Kül Öykü, Borges Defteri, Sınırda, BH Sanat, Muaf, Yazı Kültürü, Kara Mecmua, Yasakmeyve Karakalem, Mevsimsiz, Siyahkahve, Mavi Ada, Sokak Yazarları, Mavi Melek, Berfin Bahar, Kül, Deliler Teknesi, Çalakalem Mor Söz, Patika, Yüxexes Karakalem, Denizsuyukasesi and Kadıköy Underground Poetix. His poems Manchester Art Galery in 2009, organized the exhibition with the theme was Angels and Anarchy. He is a member of 'Turkish Authors Association -TTA'. He has called himself a moralist, although one of his generation's most controversial authors because of his graphic prose style. Influenced by American social realists like Ellis, Brodsky, Ballard and Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. Çetinkaya updates those novelists themes of youthful alumni, materialism, status obsession, and social trangression; he also employs their technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters. His dystopic locales typically make use of large, dense cities such as İzmir and İstanbul.

Awards, prizes and honors

• VII Internatıonal Philosophy Olympiad (2003) for his article War and Tolstoy
• Kemal Özer Poetry Prize (2010) for his poem Oil

References

• Varlık http://www.varlik.com.tr/dergiDetay.aspx?dergiID=146
• Kaos Gl http://www.kaosgl.com/node/2086
• Manchester Art Galery http://search.manchester.gov.uk/results.php?q=art&client=default_frontend&site=&collections%5B%5D=mcc_galleries&output=xml&ie=&lr=&oe=&filter=0&getfields=*&start=440&sort=date%3AD%3AR%3Ad1&searchType=advanced&fileFormatInclusion=&fileFormat=
• Waterstones 25 authors for the Future. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6665401.stm