Yılmaz Onay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yılmaz Onay

Turkish writer

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1937

Place of Birth: Gaziantep, Turkey

Date of Death: 09-Jan-2018

Profession: writer, translator, author

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Yilmaz Onay (20 April 1937 – 9 January 2018) was a Turkish author, theatre director and translator.He translated plays, which most of them are known plays of Bertolt Brecht, stories, novels, books of poems and non-fiction books from German to Turkish and write plays and novels; all published.
As a director, he staged most of Brecht's works, in a theatre called Epic Theatre which he was one of the frontiers of this theatre movement in Turkey. Onay's first accomplishment as director was, staging a known play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich written by Brecht.