La Joie De Vivre

Bertan Onaran (1937): He graduated from Haydarpaşa High School, IU Faculty of Letters, French Language and Literature Department. He published his first translations in 1963. He met Memet Fuat in 1964; Gide, Sartre, Camus and Mayakovsky joined the authors whose works he translated. He then translated from Saint Exupery, Marguerite Duras, Albertine Sarrazin, Gilles Martinet. He translated Cervantes' masterpiece, Don Quixote, in full text for the first time. He translated all of Wilhelm Reich's books into Turkish. TDK translation award was given to The Guest Girl, which was quoted from Beauvoir by Bertan Onaran, who translated from André Malraux, Émile Zola, Stendhal, Panait Istrati, Eugène Ionesco, Alain Robe Grillet, and Nathalie Sarraute.