Yılmaz Onay

Yılmaz Onay (April 20, 1937 – January 9, 2018) was a Turkish author, artist, theatre director, playwright and translator. 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 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.