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[LITERATURE] - Yaşar Kemal – The Poetic Voice of a People Moving Signed Letters on Life, Beauty, and the Role of the Writer from the Kurdish Icon - KEMAL Yasar - Typed letter signed, dated April 17, 1985” by the Kurdish writer and human rights activist from Turkey. An outspoken intellectual, he often did not hesitate to speak about sensitive issues, especially those concerning the oppression of the Kurdish people. Addressed to the Dutch journalist and writer Peter Michielsen (1946–2008): “…It is very kind of you to take an interest in me, bu I am afraid it will not be possible for me to meet you at that date, as I shall be away from Istanbul all through summer…”. 1/2 p. In-8. With personal letterhead. Included: photographic portrait with autograph signature of the Kurdish writer. On postcard. Included: Beautiful autograph letter signed in Turkish signed “Yaşar Kemal”, not dated by the Kurdish writer and human rights activist from Turkey. Kemal writes a moving letter about the poetry of life (translated): “…I understand if you are pessimistic… Of course, there is death, there are difficulties, and there is a terrible emptiness in life... Man, throughout history, has gone through dark days, desperate exiles, catastrophes, fires, misfortunes, wars, fears. Yet out of all this, out of the whole dark age, out of despair, someone has taken something, something beautiful, something luminous, something that gives meaning to life, that gives value. Someone took all this and brought it here, and from here passed it on. This is the poetry of life, the joy of living, the infinite gratitude for creation.... Read at the Bosphorus, read at Ilıca, read about the fertile land... Read the epics... And listen to yourselves, learn. There is something that calls us to beauty, in nature, in the universe. There is a luminous joy we cannot renounce.... And so, is it not more right to create with this luminous joy? This luminous joy, of course, cannot be explained if we do not create against the dark days; it is the very essence of man. It is what creates man, what drives us to live, what we cannot renounce…”. 2 pp. In-4.