Book Signing "The Lost Book-Secret of Barnabas" by Aydogan Vatandas

Author: Aydogan Vatandas Date : Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 7:00 pm Where : Turkish Cultural Center Title: The Lost Book-Secret of Barnabas

The novel is about a secret Gospel of St. Barnabas which was found in a cave in Turkey . Mr Kemal Yilmaz, a proffesor of Aramaic Language is murdered in his house. The Aramaic was the language of Jesus in which he gave his first teachings to the people. While a secret organisation tries to prevent the emerge of the Gospel, The professor and his journalist friend Ayhan Sualp face a dark and the cold sides of the secret services.

Short Biography of the Author:

He was born in 1974 in Istanbul . He graduated from the Naval High School in 1993. At the same year, as a military student, he won the Yetkin Yorukoglu Poem Award. In 1995 he gave up studing in Naval War Academy and began working as a reporter for a weekly magasine Aksiyon. In 2000, he began to write for the newspaper Zaman. He still represents CHA in NY which is belonged to the same media group.

He graduated from the department of English Literature in 2001. He studied Social Anthropology in Yeditepe University as a master student.

He wrote his first book Armageddon in 1996 which still is a best seller in Turkey . He is the writer of many noted non-fiction books in Tukish. His first fiction, Kaynak Kitap-Barnabas'in Sirri( The Lost Book-Secret of Barnabas) was published in 2007 by the Dogan Publishing.

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