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Fikret Yegül, author

About

Fikret Yegül

Fikret Yegül is a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an architect (Middle East Technical University, Ankara; University of Pennsylvania) and an architectural historian and classical archaeologist (Harvard University). He is the author of some ten scholarly books and over one-hundred articles, some of which have received international awards. He has been a member of the Sardis Archaeological Exploration Project of Harvard since 1963. His professional interests and wonder in the art and life of classical antiquity underlie his interest in his own past and the stories of the wonders of the period he lives in.
Hamid's World, is his first fiction publication. Yegül is working on an another story he names ‘Long Way to Istanbul'.

Books

  • Hamid's World (or Storks Flying Home) By Fikret Yegül

    Hamid's World (or Storks Flying Home)

    For a moment I was afraid, I shivered. Not from the cold of the night nor the desolation of the place. I was afraid the end of Hamid's tale embodied in his words would determine the end of the tale I wanted to recreate. I was afraid that the outcome that would open doors for him would close them from me. With a painful effort, as if to take back his memories, with the dark, irrevocable knowledge of his confessing, telling everything, he opened his mouth. "No, no, Hamid," I said. "No, I don't want anything else, let it stay here ... I learned it now!" Hamid's tale is more than a tale of growing up, coming of age, facing life's losses. Following the story of Hamid's young life, we are invited look with fresh eyes to the larger, timeless, human - maybe Socratic - questions: 'How does life gain value? How should we live?'  

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