With his vast knowledge and perpetual smile, regular Skylife contributor Prof. Dr. Metin And is an incorrigible teaser who likes to turn everything into a game.

Metin And has been dubbed a ‘Renaissance man’ by dean of Turkish letters Prof. Talat Halman: “Masters of both the arts and the sciences with prodigious accomplishments in a wide range of fields are called ‘Renaissance men’ because the most impressive representatives of this human type are associated with Renaissance Italy.”
Fifty-three books, ten of them in English, some 1500 articles, hundreds of lectures given round the world from America to the Far East, all in a life of 77 years. Over thirty years as a faculty member of the Department of Theater of the Ankara University School of Language, History and Geography; ‘Cultural History’ classes at Bogaziçi and Bilkent Universities; guest professorships in America, Germany and Japan; the Scholarship Award of the Turkish Language Society (1970);