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词条 Moris Farhi
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  1. Profile

  2. Filmography

  3. Novels {{anchor|youngturk}}

  4. References

  5. Further reading

  6. External links

{{EngvarB|date=September 2017}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}Musa Moris Farhi MBE (1935–5 March 2019) was a Turkish author who was vice-president of International PEN from 2001 to his death in 2019.[1]

Profile

Farhi was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Ankara, Turkey, in 1935. Farhi received B.A. in Humanities from Robert Academy, Istanbul, in 1954. He came to the UK in the same year and trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1956 and settling in London. After a brief career as an actor, he took up writing.

He wrote several novels, including Children of the Rainbow and Journey through the Wilderness. Children of the Rainbow received two prizes: the “Amico Rom” from the Associazione Them Romano of Italy (2002); and the “Special” prize from the Roma Academy of Culture and Sciences in Germany (2003). The French edition of Young Turk (Jeunes Turcs) received the 2007 Alberto Benveniste Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in many British, US and European publications and in the anthology of 20th century Jewish poets, Voices Within the Ark (Avon, US, 1979). He also published short stories in anthologies and magazines in the UK, the US and Poland. He wrote many television scripts; a film, The Primitives; and a stage play, From The Ashes of Thebes.

Farhi's essay, "The Courage To Forget", appeared in Index on Censorship (Vol.24, No.2, 2005). "God Save Us From Religion", is included in the collection, Free Expression is No Offence (edited by Lisa Appignanesi, published by Penguin Books, 2005). "All History is the History of Migration", given at the “Know Your Place?” Conference in November 2005, was also published by Index on Censorship in 2006. Farhi's works have been translated into Arabic, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish.

He donated part of his personal library, consisting over 19,000 books, to Boğaziçi University.

For over twenty-five years Farhi campaigned, from the ranks of English PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC), for writers persecuted and/or imprisoned by repressive regimes. Between 1994 and 1997, he served as Chair of the English WiPC; and between 1997 and 2000, as Chair of International P.E.N.'s Writers in Prison Committee. In November 2001 he was elected a Vice-President of International PEN. He was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on 16 June 2001 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for services to literature. He was a Fellow of both The Royal Society of Literature and The Royal Geographical Society.

Farhi also briefly worked on the BBC's science fiction series Doctor Who during its early stages of production in 1963. He drafted scripts for the serial "Farewell, Great Macedon" and the stand-alone episode "The Yellow Arc of Fragrance", neither of which ultimately entered production. Audio adaptations of these scripts would later appear in 2010 as The First Doctor Boxset as part of the The Lost Stories line released by Big Finish Productions.

Farhi was married to the late Nina Farhi (née Gould), a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and had a stepdaughter (or daughter? See Nina Farhi's obituary in The Guardian),[2] Rachel Sievers, a speech therapist. He was related to the late prominent businessman Üzeyir Garih and was the cousin of fashion designer Nicole Farhi.

His death in March 2019 was reported in The Bookseller [3]

Filmography

  • The Flesh and the Fiends (1960) – Stallholder (uncredited)
  • From Russia with Love (1963) – Gypsy (uncredited)
  • You Only Live Twice (1967) – Control Room Technician (uncredited)

Novels {{anchor|youngturk}}

  • The Pleasure of Your Death (Constable, 1972)
  • The Last of Days (Bodley Head & Crown, US, 1983)
  • Journey Through the Wilderness (Macmillan/Picador, 1989)
  • Children of the Rainbow (Saqi, 1999)
  • Young Turk (Saqi 2004)
  • A Designated Man (Telegram Books, 2009)
  • Songs From Two Continents Poems (Saqi 2011)

References

1. ^{{cite book|last1=Kerbel|first1=Sorrel|last2=Emanuel|first2=Muriel|last3=Phillips|first3=Laura|title=Jewish writers of the twentieth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=apprbj4EA0gC&pg=PA274|accessdate=13 April 2011|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-57958-313-2|page=274}}
2. ^{{cite web|last1=White|first1=Jean|title=The Guardian obituary, Nina Farhi|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/may/06/obituary-nina-farhi|website=The Guardian|accessdate=7 December 2015}}
3. ^//www.thebookseller.com/news/writer-and-pen-campaigner-moris-farhi-dies-aged-84-968596

Further reading

KOCIEJOWSKI, Marius. God's Zoo – Artists, Exiles, Londoners (Carcanet, 2014) contains a biographical chapter "Old Turk, Young Turk – Moris Farhi and his Journey to the Fountain of Youth".

External links

  • Listen to Moris Farhi reading his poetry – a British Library recording, 28 May 2008.
  • Profile at English PEN
  • Article by Farhi at the New Statesman
  • Moris Farhi Gift Book Catalogue at Boğaziçi University
  • {{IMDb name|0267334}}
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