“TO WRITE IS TO INTERVENE IN TIME”
For many people, his literature is like a magical trap: filled with shadows, loneliness, poetry, philosophy, the past and the future. He is one of the most important Turkish authors to have been influenced by existentialism; as a novelist and a poet, he fearlessly plays around with time and place. Hasan Ali Toptaş’s first novel, Bir Gülüşün Kimliği, was published in 1987 and he has continued his literary adventure ever since, with works translated into many languages.