Kemal Bilbaşar (born 1910,

Çanakkale Çanakkale (pronounced ), ancient ''Dardanellia'' (), is a city and seaport in Turkey in Çanakkale province on the southern shore of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. The population of the city is 195,439 (2021 estimate). Çanakkale is ...

– 21 January 1983,

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), was a

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writer.

Biography

He was born in

. His father is Hüsnü Naim Efendi, a police chief commissioner from the

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, and his mother is Nuriye Hanım, who is an immigrant from

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. Naim Efendi, who graduated from

Sofia University Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...

, went to Thessaloniki as the police chief after his appointment came out after serving in Çanakkale for a while. Upon the death of Naim Efendi, who worked here for a while, the family migrated to Çanakkale, his previous place of duty. The family had to leave here in 1915 after the Çanakkale front was also bombarded during

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. Bilbaşar was among the contributors of the literary magazine ''

Adımlar ''Adımlar'' ( tr, Steps) was a literary and political magazine which appeared in Ankara, Turkey, between May 1943 and April 1944. Its subtitle was ''Aylık Fikir ve Kültür Dergisi'' ( tr, Monthly Journal of Ideas and Culture). It is known for ...

'' between 1943 and 1944.

Bibliography

Story

* ''Anadolu'dan Hikayeler'' - 1939 * ''Cevizli Bahçe'' - 1941 * ''Pembe Kurt'' - 1953 * ''Üç Bulutlu Hikayeler'' - 1956 * ''Irgatların Öfkesi'' - 1971 * ''Pazarlık'' – 1944 * ''Köyden Kentten'' – 1961

Novel

* ''Denizin Çağırışı'' – 1943 * ''Ay Tutulduğu Gece'' – 1961 * ''Cemo'' – 1966 * ''Memo'' – 1970 * ''Yeşil Gölge'' – 1970 * ''Yonca Kız'' – 1971 * ''Başka Olur Ağaların Düğünü'' – 1972 * ''Kölelik Dönemeci'' – 1977 * ''Bedoş'' – 1980 * ''Zühre Ninem'' – 1981

References

Notes

1910 births 1983 deaths Writers from Istanbul {{Turkey-writer-stub