Kerim Korcan(1918-1990)
- Writer
Novelist and story writer (B. 31 January 1918, Aktefek village / Adapazari - D. 9 November 1990, Istanbul). He left primary school in the fourth grade (1932). He has worked in various jobs since his childhood. At the age of twenty-two, when he was a foreman as a barber in Istanbul, he was tried together with Nâzim Hikmet in the Navy Case for the allegation of founding a secret organization and was imprisoned for ten years (1938-48). He was tried together with the Vatan Party executives, of which he was one of the founders, in 1954, and was acquitted in 1959. Kerim Korcan worked as a carpenter, bookseller and writer in the following years. With his interview named Köse, he won the second prize in the 1962 Karacan Gift competition. The novel Lynch was adapted for theater and cinema. Tatar Ramadan play was performed in Istanbul City Theaters (1976).
