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BARBARA WALKER
Country: United States of America
Profession: Oral Archivist and Writer
Barbara Walker was born in 1921 in Michigan. She did both undergraduate and graduate studies at the
State University of New York at Albany. She has taught and traveled in Turkey and continues to be
active in Turkish cultural endeavors in the US. She and her husband run the Archives of Turkish Oral
Narrative at the Texas Tech University.
Barbara Walker was cited by Turkish Ministry of Education for “Distinguished Achievement in Acquainting
Americans with Turkish Culture” in 1967.
Her 12 Turkish based books for children were selected by Director General of Cultural Affairs, Greek
Ministry of Civilisation and Sciences, for translation into Greek to stress common oral culture of
Greeks and Turks in 1983.
She was appointed to committee for work with Turkish-American communities in New York, Chicago, and
Washington, DC to prepare elementary and secondary school students and faculty for proper appreciation
of the Suleyman the Magnificent Exhibit in 1987. She was awarded a plaque by the American Turkish
Association of Houston “in recognition of her valuable endeavors to inform the American public about
Turkey” in 1986; Selected to present a seminar on Suleyman the Magnificent at the 1987 annual meeting of
the American Friends of Turkey in 1987; she and her husband were awarded a plaque by the Arkadas Turkish
Folk Ensemble (San Jose, California) “in recognition of the many years spent in research of Turkish
Folklore and Culture in 1987; she and her husband were award with honorary membership in the Ataturk
Supreme Council on Culture in Ankara in 1989; she and her husband were awarded a Litt.D. degree by
Selcuk University in Konya in 1989.
Her Turkish-related books for children include:
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· Hilili and Dilili
· Just Say Hic
· Stargazer to the Sultan
· Watermelons, Walnuts and the Wisdom of Allah and Other Tales of the Hoca
· Once There Was and Twice There Wasn’t
· The Mouse and the Elephant
· Korolu, the Singing Bandit
· The Round Sultan and the Straight Answer
· The Courage of Kazan
· The Ifrit and the Magic Gifts
· New Patches for Old
· Teeny-Tiny and the Witch-Woman
· A Treasury of Turkish Folktales for Children
· Turkish Folktales for Children
· Kazim and His Patches-on Patches Shoes
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Her Turkish-related books for readers and listeners of all ages:
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· To Set Them Free: The Early Years of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
· Turkish Games for Health and Recreation
· The Art of the Turkish Tale (volumes I and II)
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Sema Karaoglu
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