Prominent Turkish author Adalet Ağaoğlu died on July 14 at the age of 91. She is described as the most prolific authors of 20th century Turkish literature.
“We lost Adalet Ağaoğlu this morning,” wrote Turkish literary critic Semih Gümüş on Twitter.
“She was one of the most important writers of our literature. Her novels were very special,” Gümüş said sharing a photo of the Turkish novelist along with her husband who died in 2018.
Turkey’s prestigious Boğaziçi University said: “We have lost the great name of our literature, the valuable writer Adalet Ağaoğlu, who has an honorary Ph.D. from Boğazici University. She will always live with her works.”
Thousands of tweets were shared to pay respects to the renowned author, as politicians also shared messages of condolences.
The award-winning writer was born in 1929 in the Turkish capital Ankara. She studied French Language and Literature at Ankara University.
Her first novel, Lying down to Die, was published in 1973 and soon became a hit, later becoming a trilogy with the publication of A Wedding Night (1979) and No (1989).
Ağaoğlu’s second novel, Thin Rose of My Thoughts (1976), was pulled off the shelves at the fourth edition after charges were filed against her for “humiliating and deriding armed forces.” She was eventually acquitted after a two-year trial.