This is a list of Turkish writers who are
Ottoman or
Turkish
Turkish may refer to:
*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
nationals and who write in
Turkish language
Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant sma ...
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İhsan Oktay Anar
İhsan Oktay Anar (born 1960 in Yozgat, Turkey), is a Turkish writer, illustrator, literature translator and an academic.
He studied philosophy in Ege University on undergraduate (1984), graduate (1989) and doctoral levels. Anar now teaches at th ...
, novelist, story writer (born 1960)
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Sait Faik Abasıyanık
Sait Faik Abasıyanık (18 November 1906 – 11 May 1954) was one of the greatest Turkish writers of short stories and poetry and considered an important literary figure of the 1940s. He created a brand new style in Turkish literature and brou ...
, short story writer, novelist, poet (1906–1954)
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Halide Edib Adıvar
Halide Edib Adıvar ( ota, خالده اديب , sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English; 11 June 1884 – 9 January 1964) was a Turkish novelist, teacher, ultranationalist and feminist intellectual. She was best known for her novels critici ...
, novelist, scholar politician (1884–1964)
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Agah Efendi
Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi (1832 – 1885) was an Ottoman civil servant, writer and newspaper editor who, along with his colleague İbrahim Şinasi, published '' Tercüman-ı Ahvâl'' ("Interpreter of Events"), the first private newspa ...
, journalist (1832–1885)
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Adalet Ağaoğlu
Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer; 23 October 1929 – 14 July 2020) was a Turkish women, Turkish Turkish women in literature, novelist and Theatre in Turkey, playwright, considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Turkish literature. Sh ...
, novelist and playwright (born 1929)
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Süreyya Ağaoğlu Süreyya Ağaoğlu (1903, Shusha, Azerbaijan – 29 December 1989, Istanbul) was a Turkish- Azerbaijani writer, jurist, and the first female lawyer in Turkish history.Ghada Talhami. Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Afr ...
, lawyer (1903–1989)
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Zeynep Ahunbay
Zeynep Ahunbay (born 1946 in Ünye, Ordu Province) is a leading Turkish scholar of antiquities.
Biography
Dr. Ahunbay was born in Ünye, Ordu Province, a small town in the Black Sea region of Turkey.
She received her PhD in architectural history ...
, scholar (born 1946)
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Munejjim-bashi Ahmed Dede
Ahmed Lütfullah (early 17th century – 27 February 1702), better known by his court title of Münejjim Bashi ( tr, Müneccimbaşı; "Chief Astrologer"), was an Ottoman courtier, scholar, Sufi poet and historian. His chief work is the ''Jamiʿ ...
, courtier, poet, historian (died 1702)
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Ahmed Vefik Pasha
Ahmed Vefik Pasha ( ota, احمد وفیق پاشا ) (3 July 1823 2 April 1891) was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat, scholar, playwright, and translator during the Tanzimat and First Constitutional Era periods. He was commissioned with top-rank ...
, translator, playwright, statesman, dictionary writer, diplomat of Greek origin (1823–1891)
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Hikmet Temel Akarsu
Hikmet Temel Akarsu (born 1960 in Gümüşhane, Turkey) is a Turkish novelist, short story writer, satirist and playwright.
He moved to Istanbul with his family at the age of nine. After graduating from Istanbul Technical University with a de ...
, novelist, short story writer, playwright, satirist (born 1960)
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Gülten Akın
Gülten Akın (23 January 1933 – 4 November 2015) was a Turkish poet. Her poetry is considered to be culturally significant to Turkey.
Akin was born in 1933 in Yozgat, Turkey. She attended Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School and gradua ...
, poet (1933–2015)
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Alev Alatlı Alev Alatlı (born 1944 in Menemen) is a Turkish columnist and bestselling novelist.
Early years
She was born 1944 in the town of Menemen in western Turkey to an officer's family. She spent her childhood in Japan, where her father was appointed a ...
, economist, philosopher, novelist, columnist (born 1944)
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Sabahattin Ali
Sabahattin Ali (25 February 1907 – 2 April 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.
Early life
He was born in 1907 in Eğridere township (now Ardino in southern Bulgaria) of the Sanjak of Gümülcine (no ...
, novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist (1903–1948)
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Melih Cevdet Anday
Melih Cevdet Anday (13 March 1915 – 28 November 2002) was a Turkish writer whose poetry stands outside the traditional literary movements. He also wrote in many other genres which, over six and a half decades, included eleven collections of p ...
, poet (1915–2002)
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Nezihe Araz
Fatma Nezihe Araz (11 May 1920 – 25 July 2009) was a Turkish writer and journalist. In addition to her 1959 best seller on the saints of Anatolia, she wrote several plays for television and the stage as well as three books about Atatürk.
Ea ...
, playwright, journalist, poet (1920–2009)
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Duygu Asena
Duygu Asena (19 April 1946 – 30 July 2006) was a Turkish journalist, best-selling author and activist for women's rights.
Biography
She was born in Istanbul as the daughter of Nihal and Muhtar Asena. His father was in the sesame business. His g ...
, journalist, women's rights activist (1946–2006)
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Nurullah Ataç
Nurullah Ataç (21 August 1898 – 17 May 1957) was a Turkish writer, poet and literary critic.
Life
He was born on 21 August 1898 in Istanbul, then the capital of the Ottoman Empire. He studied in the Galatasaray High School and the Faculty of ...
, writer, poet and literary critic (1898–1957)
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Meltem Arıkan
Handan Meltem Arıkan (born January 7, 1968) is a Turkish novelist and playwright.
Biography
Arıkan was born and grew up in Ankara, Turkey. Currently she is UK based since she was persecuted by the Turkish government. The play Mi Minör is cons ...
, novelist and playwright (born 1968)
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Yusuf Atılgan
Yusuf Atılgan (27 June 1921 – 9 October 1989) was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels ''Aylak Adam'' (The Loiterer) and ''Anayurt Oteli'' (Motherland Hotel). He is one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish nove ...
, novelist, short story writer and playwright (1921–1989)
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Doğan Avcıoğlu
Doğan Avcıoğlu (1926–1983) was a Turkish writer, journalist and politician.
Biography
Doğan Avcıoğlu was born in Mustafakemalpaşa ilçe (district) of Bursa Province in 1926. After completing high school, he traveled to France for studie ...
, journalist, politician (1926–1983)
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Şevket Süreyya Aydemir
Şevket Süreyya Aydemir (1897–25 March 1976) was a Turkish writer, intellectual, economist, historian, and one of the founders, publisher and a key theorist of ''Kadro'' ("Cadre"). ''Kadro'' was an influential left-wing political journal publi ...
, historian, economist (1897–1976)
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Behçet Aysan
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Behçet Aysan (1949 – 2 July 1993) was a Turkish physician and poet. He was killed, along with 34 others, during the Sivas massacre in Sivas, Turkey when a group of salafists set fire to the hotel where the victims had gathered fo ...
, physician and poet (1949-1993)
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Samiha Ayverdi
Samiha Ayverdi (25 November 1905 – 22 March 1993) was a Turkish writer and Sufi mystic.
Biography
Samiha Ayverdi was born in İstanbul to Fatma Meliha Hanim and İsmail Hakkı Bey, an Ottoman military official. She studied at Süleymaniye ...
, Sufi mystic (1905–1993)
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Vecihi Başarın
Vecihi "John" Başarın (; born 1947) is a Turkish Australian historian and author with a special interest in Gallipoli. His research has been instrumental in bringing a Turkish perspective to Australian migration and the ill-fated ANZAC campaig ...
, historian (born 1947)
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Pelin Batu
Pelin Batu (born 27 December 1978) is a Turkish author, actress, historian, and television personality.
Biography
Due to her father İnal Batu's career as a diplomat, she spent her childhood in many foreign countries including Pakistan, Cypru ...
, actress, poet, historian (born 1978)
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Enis Batur
Ahmet Enis Batur (born 28 June 1952, Eskişehir, Turkey) is a Turkish poet, essayist, novelist, and editor.
Education
Born in Eskişehir on 28 June 1952, Enis Batur studied at St. Joseph High School Istanbul, METU-Sociology (Ankara), and So ...
, poet, essayist, novelist, editor (born 1952)
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Ataol Behramoğlu
Ataol Behramoğlu (born April 13, 1942) is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator.
Life
Ataol Behramoğlu was born on April 13, 1942 in Istanbul. He wrote poems in honour of his father Hikmet Bahramoglu, ...
, poet, essayist, translator (born 1942)
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Nazan Bekiroğlu
Nazan Bekiroğlu (born 3 May 1957) is a Turkish novelist and academician.
Biography
She was born on May 3, 1957, in Trabzon. She was the youngest of three children born to a family with an interest in literature. Her father was the owner of a ...
, novelist (born 1957)
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İlhan Berk
İlhan Berk (18 November 1918 – 28 August 2008) was a leading Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry (termed, "İkinci Yeni"; ''"The second new generation"'') and was very influential among Turkish li ...
, poet (1918–2008)
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Asım Bezirci, critic, writer and poet (1927-1993)
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Aydın Boysan, architect, scholar, essayist (born 1921)
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Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı
Rıza Tevfik Bey (Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı after the Turkish Surname Law of 1934; 1869 – 31 December 1949) was an Ottoman and later Turkish philosopher, poet, politician of liberal signature and a community leader (for some members among the ...
, philosopher, poet, politician (1869–1949)
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Sevim Burak
Zeliha Sevim Burak (29 June 1931 – 31 December 1983) was a Turkish author and playwright.
Her mother was a Jewish migrant from Bulgaria and her father was a Turkish sea captain. She was born in Ortaköy and grew up in the Istanbul neighbourhoo ...
, playwright, poet (1931–1983)
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Coşkun Büktel, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, critic (born 1950)
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Edip Cansever
Edip Cansever (pronounced ; August 8, 1928 – May 28, 1986) was a Turkish poet.
Biography
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Cansever attended Trade Academy for some time, and worked as an antiquity salesman in Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
The Grand ...
, poet (1928–1986)
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Abdullah Cevdet
Abdullah Cevdet ( ota, عبدالله جودت; tr, Abdullah Cevdet Karlıdağ; 9 September 1869 – 29 November 1932) was a Kurdish intellectual and physician in the Ottoman Empire. He was one of the founders of the Committee of Union and ...
, poet, philosopher, translator (1869–1932)
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Ece Ayhan Çağlar
Ece Ayhan Çağlar (September 10, 1931 in Muğla – July 13, 2002 in İzmir) was a contemporary Poetry of the Republic of Turkey, Turkish poet. He used the name ''Ece Ayhan'' in his poems. He is one of the prominent figures of the ''II. New Movem ...
(1931–2002), poet
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Semih Çalışkan
Semih Çalışkan (born 10 January 1986, İstanbul ) is a Turkish best-selling book author. Çalışkan published his first book ''A Bar Philosopher'' ('' tr, Bir Bar Filozofu'') in October 2015 and it became a national bestseller. His second bo ...
(born 1986), novelist
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Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (26 August 1914, Istanbul – 15 October 2008, Istanbul) was one of the most prolific Turkish poets of the Turkish Republic with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007. He was a laureate of the ...
, poet (1914–2008)
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Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, poet and playwright (1909–1980)
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Sulhi Dölek, satirist (1948–2005)
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Erzurumlu Emrah Erzurumlu Emrah (1775, Güzelyurt, Erzurum – 1854, Niksar, Tokat) was a Turkish Turkish folk poet.
Life
He took a madrasah education in Erzurum. He was interested in mysticism and adhered to the Halidi branch of Nakşibendi, lived in Sivas and ...
(1775–1854), folk poet
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Ercüment Ekrem Talu
Ercüment Ekrem Talu (1886 – December 16, 1956) was a Turkish writer, humorist and a journalist.
Biography
He was born to Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem, a poet and writer of the Ottoman Empire era in Istanbul in 1886. After graduating from Galatasara ...
(1886–1956), humorist, journalist
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Refik Erduran
Ahmet Refik Erduran (February 13, 1928 – January 7, 2017) was a Turkish playwright, columnist and writer. He wrote thirty plays and eight books, and was a columnist for twenty years; he was named "The Most Successful Playwright" by the Turkish M ...
(1928–2017), playwright, journalist and writer
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Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was a Turkish people, Turkish pan-Islamist poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the İstiklâl Marşı, Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere l ...
(1873–1936), poet, scholar, writer of the
Turkish National Anthem
Turkish may refer to:
*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
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Fitnat Hanım (died in 1780), poet
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Müjdat Gezen
Müjdat Gezen (born 29 October 1943) is a Turkish theatre actor and writer.
Private life
He was born on 29 October 1943 in Istanbul. He studied in Vefa High School where he met Uğur Dündar and Kemal Sunal, who became lifelong friends. After gr ...
, theatre actor and writer (born 1943)
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Ziya Gökalp
Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (23 March 1876 – 25 October 1924) was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp ("cel ...
, sociologist, poet, political activist (1876–1924)
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Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Reşat Nuri Güntekin () (25 November 1889 – 7 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter, and playwright. His best known novel, '' Çalıkuşu'' ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia. Th ...
, novelist, storywriter and playwright (1889–1956)
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Osman Necmi Gürmen, novelist
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Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar (August 17, 1864 – March 8, 1944) was a Turkish writer, civil servant, and politician.
Biography
Born in Istanbul, Gürpınar was the son of a family close to the Ottoman court. Having lost his mother at an early ...
, writer and politician (1864–1944)
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Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi
Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi (c. 1546 – 1604) was an Ottoman poet and bibliographer of the 16th century. His main work is the ''Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara'' (Memoirs of the Poets), one of the best known Ottoman ''tezkires'' (bibliographical dictionary ...
, poet and bibliographer (1546–1604)
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Ahmet Haşim
Ahmet Haşim (also written as Ahmed Hâşim; 1884? – 4 June 1933) was an influential Turkish poet of the early 20th century.
Biography
Ahmed Hâşim was born in Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Ira ...
, poet (1884–1933)
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Nazım Hikmet
A nazim is the coordinator of a city or town in Pakistan.
Nazim or variant spellings may also refer to:
*Nazim (given name), including a list of people with the given name
*Nazim (surname), including a list of people with the surname
See also
*N ...
, poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director (1902–1963)
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Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar
Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar (March 14, 1887 in Istanbul – May 3, 1963 in Istanbul) was a Turkish writer.
He spent his childhood in Rumeli Hisarı and studied at the Galatasaray High School and later political sciences in Paris. Back to Ottoman ...
, novelist and biographer (1887–1963)
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Oktay Rıfat Horozcu
Ali Oktay Rifat, better known as Oktay Rifat, (10 June 1914 – 18 April 1988) was a Turkish writer and playwright, and one of the forefront poets of modern Turkish poetry since the late 1930s. He was the founder of the Garip movement, t ...
, poet and playwright (1914–1988)
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Rıfat Ilgaz
Rıfat Ilgaz (7 May 1911 – 7 July 1993) was a Turkish teacher, writer and poet.
Biography
He was born in Cide, in the Kastamonu Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey). Ilgaz was one of Turkey’s best-known and most prolific poets ...
, teacher, writer and poet (1911–1993)
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Attilâ İlhan
Attilâ İlhan (15 June 1925 – 10 October 2005) was a Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer.
Early life and education
Attilâ İlhan was born in Menemen in İzmir Province, Turkey on 15 June 1925. He received most of his pr ...
, poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, reviewer (1925–2005)
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Orhan Veli Kanık
Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli (14 April 1914 – 14 November 1950) was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet. Aiming to fundamentally transform traditional form i ...
, poet (1914–1950)
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Ceyhun Atuf Kansu, poet, author (1919–1978)
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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (also rendered Yakub Kadri; ; 27 March 1889 – 13 December 1974) was a Turkish novelist, journalist, diplomat, and member of parliament.Edebiyatogretmeni.net ''Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu'' Google translated'
Biograp ...
, novelist, journalist, poet (1889–1974)
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Orhan Kemal
Orhan Kemal (15 September 1914 – 2 June 1970) is the pen name of Turkish novelist Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü. He is known for his realist novels that describe the life of the poor in Turkey.
Biography
Orhan Kemal was born in Ceyhan, Adana, ...
, novelist (1914–1970)
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Yahya Kemal Yahya may refer to:
* Yahya (name), a common Arabic male given name
* Yahya (Zaragoza), 11th-century ruler of Zaragoza
* John the Baptist in Islam, also known as Yaḥyā ibn Zakarīyā
See also
* Tepe Yahya
Tapeh Yahya () is an archaeological ...
, poet, author, politician and diplomat (1884–1958)
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Yaşar Kemal
Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a Turkish writer and human rights activist and one of Turkey's leading writers. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel ...
, writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)
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Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Ahmet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (May 26, 1904 – May 25, 1983) was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, and Islamist ideologue. He is also known simply by his initials NFK. He was noticed by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, who later ...
, poet, novelist, playwright (1904–1983)
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Mehmet Fuat Köprülü
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (December 5, 1890 – June 28, 1966), also known as Köprülüzade Mehmed Fuad, was a highly influential Turkish sociologist, turkologist, scholar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republi ...
, historian (1890–1966)
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Ayşe Kulin
Ayşe Kulin (born 26 August 1941) is a Turkish short story writer, screenwriter and novelist.
Biography
Kulin was born in Istanbul in 1941. Her father, Muhittin Kulin, of Bosniak origin, was one of the first civil engineers in Istanbul who fou ...
, novelist and columnist (born 1941)
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Aşık Mahzuni Şerif
Şerif Cırık, popularly known as Aşık Mahsuni Şerif, was a Turkish ashik, folk musician, composer, poet, and author. , folk musician,
ashik
An ashik ( az, aşıq, ; tr, âşık; fa, عاشیق) or ashugh ( hy, աշուղ; ka, აშუღი) is traditionally a singer-poet and bard who accompanies his song—be it a dastan (traditional epic story, also known as '' hikay ...
, poet, composer (1940–2002)
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Murathan Mungan
Murathan Mungan (born 21 April 1955 in Istanbul) is a Turkish author, short story writer, playwright, and poet.
Biography
Mungan's family originates from Mardin.
His father is an Arab and mother is a Bosniak. After receiving his BA from the ...
, novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright (born 1955)
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Emre Miyasoğlu, essayist and dramatist (born 1981)
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Aziz Nesin
Aziz Nesin (; born Mehmet Nusret, 20 December 1915 – 6 July 1995) was a Turkish writer, humorist and the author of more than 100 books. Born in a time when Turks did not have official surnames, he had to adopt one after the Surname Law of 1 ...
, novelist, humorist, playwright, poet, short story writer (1915–1995)
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Nedîm
Ahmed Nedîm Efendi (نديم) was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: ﻡﺨﻠﺺ ''mahlas'') of one of the most celebrated Ottoman poets. He achieved his greatest fame during the reign of Ahmed III, the so-called Tulip Era from 1718 to 1730. He wa ...
, poet (1681–1730)
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Nef'i
Nefʿī (نفعى) was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: مخلص ''maḫlaṣ'') of an Ottoman Turkish poet and satirist whose real name was ʿÖmer (عمر) (c. 1572, Hasankale, Erzurum – 1635, Istanbul).
Biography
Nefʿī came to the Ottoman ...
, poet and satirist (1572–1635)
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Nergisî, prose writer (c. 1580–1635)
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İsmet Özel
İsmet Özel (born 19 September 1944, in Kayseri) is a Turkish poet and writer.
Early years
Özel is a son of a police officer from Söke. He attended primary and secondary school in Kastamonu, Çankırı and Ankara. He attended classes at ...
, poet (born 1944)
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Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three lan ...
, novelist, screenwriter, scholar,
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(born 1952)
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Pir Sultan Abdal
Pir Sultan Abdal (born Haydar) is an important religious figure in Alevism, who is thought to be of Turkmen origin and to have been born in the village of Banaz in present-day Sivas Province, Turkey. He is considered legendary among his follower ...
, poet (c. 1480–1550)
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Peyami Safa
Peyami Safa (April 2, 1899 – June 15, 1961) was a Turkish journalist, columnist and novelist. He came to the fore in the Turkish literature of the Republican era with his psychological works such as ''Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu'' (Ninth Ext ...
, journalist, columnist and novelist (1899–1961)
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Elif Şafak
Elif Shafak ( tr, Elif Şafak, ; born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist.
Shafak writes in Turkish and English, and has published 19 works. She is best known for her no ...
, author, columnist, speaker and academic (born 1971)
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Kemal Tahir
Kemal Tahir (March 13, 1910 – April 21, 1973) was a prominent Turkish novelist and intellectual. Tahir spent 13 years of his life imprisoned for political reasons and wrote some of his most important novels during this time.
His most importan ...
, novelist and intellectual (1910–1973)
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Haldun Taner
Haldun Taner (March 16, 1915 – May 7, 1986) was a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer.
Biography
He was born on March 16, 1915 in Istanbul. After graduating from the Galatasaray High School in 1935, he studied politics and ec ...
, playwright and short story writer (1915–1986)
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Ercüment Ekrem Talu
Ercüment Ekrem Talu (1886 – December 16, 1956) was a Turkish writer, humorist and a journalist.
Biography
He was born to Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem, a poet and writer of the Ottoman Empire era in Istanbul in 1886. After graduating from Galatasara ...
, writer, humorist and a journalist (1886–1956)
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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 – 24 January 1962) was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and ...
, poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist (1901–1962)
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Fatma Aliye Topuz
Fatma Aliye Topuz (9 October 1862 – 13 July 1936), often known simply as Fatma Aliye or Fatma Aliye Hanım, was a Turkish novelist, columnist, essayist, women's rights activist and humanitarian. Although there was an earlier published nove ...
, novelist, columnist, essayist (1862–1936)
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Vedat Türkali
Abdülkadir "Demirkan" Pirhasan (13 May 1919 – 29 August 2016), known by his pen name as Vedat Türkali, was a Turkish screenwriter, novelist, playwright, intellectual, teacher and the member of the Democratic People's Party. He is also credi ...
, screenwriter, playwright, novelist (1919–2016)
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Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre () also known as Derviş Yunus (Yunus the Dervish) (1238–1328) (Old Anatolian Turkish: يونس امره)
was a Turkish folk poet and Islamic Sufi mystic who greatly influenced Turkish culture. His name, ''Yunus'', is the Muslim e ...
, poet and mystic (1238–1320)
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Mehmet Emin Yurdakul
Mehmet Emin Yurdakul (13 May 1869 – 14 January 1944) was a Turkish nationalist writer, poet and politician. Being an ideologue of Pan-Turkism, his writings and poems had a major impact on defining the term ''vatan'' (Fatherland).
Early life a ...
, poet (1869–1944)
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Halide Nusret Zorlutuna
Halide Nusret Zorlutuna (1901 – 10 June 1984) was a Turkish poet and novelist.
Biography
Zorlutuna was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire as the daughter of Mehmet Selim Bey, a journalist and political prisoner. Brought up in exile with her f ...
, poet and novelist (1901–1984)
See also
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List of Turkish short story writers
This is a list of story writers in Turkish and short story writers from Turkey.
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* Fatih Kırtorun
* Hamed Zubair Koshay
* Yaşar Kemal
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* Aziz Nesin
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* Ömer Seyfettin
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* Hasan Ali Toptaş
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List of Turkish women writers
This is a list of Turkish women writers who are Ottoman or Turkish nationals and who write in Turkish language.
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* Halide Edib Adıvar (1884–1964), novelist, nationalist, feminist
*Adalet Ağaoğlu (1929–2020), prominent novelist, playwrig ...
References
External links
Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Ansiklopedisi Dergâh YayıneviYKY Tanzimat'tan Bugüne Edebiyatçılar Ansiklopedisi
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Turkish writers
Writers
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays ...
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...