What is Yılmaz Onay?
[[File:Yilmaz Onay Rıfat Ilgaz Sempozyumu Kastamonu 2006.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Onay in 2006]] '''Yılmaz Onay''' (April 20, 1937 &ndash; January 9, 2018) was a [[Turkey|Turkish]] author, artist, [[theatre director]], [[playwright]] and [[translator]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sozcu.com.tr/hayatim/kultur-sanat-haberleri/son-dakika-haberi-yazar-yilmaz-onay-hayatini-kaybetti/|title=Son dakika haberi… Tiyatrocu yazar Yılmaz Onay hayatını kaybetti|website=sozcu.com.tr|access-date=14 January 2018}}</ref> He was born in [[Gaziantep]], Turkey. 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]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mitosboyut.net/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlink&link_id=198&Itemid=0|title=Epik Tiyatro (Marianne Kesting / Çev: Yılmaz Onay)|date=22 July 2011|website=archive.org|access-date=14 January 2018|archive-date=22 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722190330/http://www.mitosboyut.net/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlink&link_id=198&Itemid=0|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> which he was one of the frontiers of this theatre movement in Turkey. He was known for staging a known play ''[[Fear and Misery of the Third Reich]]'' written by Brecht. Onay died in Gaziantep of [[stomach cancer]] on January 9, 2018 at the age of 80.<ref>[http://www.sozcu.com.tr/hayatim/kultur-sanat-haberleri/son-dakika-haberi-yazar-yilmaz-onay-hayatini-kaybetti/ Son dakika haberi… Tiyatrocu yazar Yılmaz Onay hayatını kaybetti] {{in lang|tr}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110722190353/http://www.mitosboyut.net/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=search&searchword=y%C4%B1lmaz+onay&cat_id=0 Publisher Mitos Boyut] {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Onay, Yilmaz}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Turki