Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil

Infobox Person
name = Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil


image_size = 100px
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birth_date = 1867
birth_place = Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
death_date = 27 March 1945
death_place = Istanbul, Turkey
occupation = Writer

Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil (1867 - 27 March 1945) was a Turkish author.

Biography

He moved with his father, a merchant, to İzmir, in 1879, where he attended a Christian school. His first literary works were translations of French novels, which played an important role in the Europeanization of Turkish literature.

Uşaklıgil founded the newspaper "Hikmet" in 1886. After 1896 his works were published in the Turkish literary journal "Servet-i fünûn", known for its adoption of European literary styles.

After his novel "Kırık Hayatlar" ("Broken Lives") was censored, Uşaklıgil paused, and later ceased, writing novels, turning instead to short stories, dramas, and memoirs after 1923.

Uşaklıgil's style is based closely on French Romanticism and most of his novels deal with unfulfilled love. His work is distinguished from contemporary Turkish literature by its more concrete form and creates its own artistic language through the use of Persian and Arabic loanwords.

Bibliography

Novels
* "Nemide" (1889)
* "Bir Ölünün Defteri" (1889)
*"Ferdi ve Şürekâsı" (1894)
*"Mai ve Siyah" (1897)
*"Aşk-ı Memnu" (1900)
*"Kırık Hayatlar" (1923)

Short Stories
*"Bir Muhtıranın Son Yaprakları" (1888)
*"Bir İzdivacın Tarih-i Muaşakası" (1888)
*"Heyhat" (1894)
*"Solgun Demet" (1901)
*"Sepette Bulunmuş" (1920)
*"Bir Hikâye-i Sevda" (1922)
*"Hepsinden Acı" (1934)
*"Onu Beklerken" (1935)
*"Aşka Dair" (1936)
*"İhtiyar Dost" (1939)
*"Kadın Pençesinde" (1939)
*"İzmir Hikâyeleri" (1950) (posthumous)

Dramas
*"Kabus" (1918)
*"Anı: Kırk Yıl" (1936)
*"Sara ve Ötesi" (1942)
*"Bir Acı Hikâye" (1942)

Poetry
*"Mensur Şiirler" (1889)

Essays
*"Sanata Dair" (1938-1955) (three volumes)

External links

* Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism - [http://www.kultur.gov.tr/TR/BelgeGoster.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFF8FE9074FF19B00050046571F068D009C "Biography of Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil"] tr icon