Yaşar Kemal Dictionary

Yaşar Kemal is one of the great masters of our literature and language. He is a master of narrative. He is a great writer who made Turkish poetry known. He is an epic writer and a folk singer.

The reader of Yaşar Kemal gets carried away by his Karacaoğlan personality and reads without stopping at the words, idioms, proverbs, curses, satires, applauses, and supplications he uses. However, Yaşar Kemal added many regional words, idioms and expressions to the flow of that sweet narrative. Yaşar Kemal made regional language elements the property of the common language. Regardless, this argument can be considered a "relative argument" for now. And so it is: Because regional words should be considered to have entered the common language when a common language writer like Yaşar Kemal is used in all his works. On the other hand, for now, regionalism is in effect as these words can be found in Yaşar Kemal.

The Yaşar Kemal Dictionary in your hand is a dictionary of these regional words.
The words, proverbs and idioms in Yaşar Kemal Dictionary are not found in general language dictionaries. Or a few of them only have different forms. Some of them do not even exist in compilation dictionaries. In this respect, this is a very special dictionary. I think it will be of interest to Yaşar Kemal's readers as well as every writer who focuses on folk sources, anyone who wants to expand their vocabulary and who wants to focus on the local possibilities of Turkish.

However, Yaşar Kemal is a master who should be examined in depth not only in this very special aspect, but in every aspect.
I hope that this dictionary will be a step on this path and a basis.
-Ali Püsküllüoğlu-