Nigâr Hanım

Yazar, Şair

Ölüm
01 Nisan, 1918
Diğer İsimler
Sandor Farkaş, Nigâr bint-i Osman (Nigâr the daughter of Osman)

Poet (b. 1856, İstanbul – d. 1 April 1918, İstanbul). After the 1849 Hungarian Revolution, she took refuge in Turkey and worked as a teacher at Turkish Military School. She was the daughter of the Hungarian Osman Paşa (Farkos Sandor). Her father was an aide-de-camp in the Ottoman Army and then he became a Muslim and took the name Osman Nihali. Because of that Nigâr Hanım used the name of her father, ‘Nigar the daughter of Osman’ in her writing. She was a student at a French boarding school in Kadıköy, she also took language lessons (Turkish, Persian, Arabic, German and Romaic) privately. She got married when she was 14 and she immediately divorced. Her house in Şişli became a place where those closely interested in literature frequently visited.

She became one of the well-known women poets with her poems published in Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete and Servet-i Fünûn with the pen name Uryan Kalp (Naked Heart). She always used a traditional style of language in her work. There was always sadness and sorrow in her poems. Since she was unhappy with her life and because she had to leave her husband, there was always lyricism in her poems. Namık Kemal, Abdülhak Hamit, Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, Tevfik Fikret, Cenap Şehabettin are the poets and writers by whom she was influenced. Nigâr Hanım, who was a productive woman, wrote essays, songs, plays and translated poems. The poems in Aks-i Sadâ (Echo), which is her most famous work, were better than her previous poems from the point of view of subject, style and poetry technique. Her poems were set to music by famous composers. She is buried at Kayalar Graveyard in Rumelihisarı next to her mother and father.

WORKS:

POETRY: Efsûs (What a Pity, 2 volumes, 1986, 1890), Nirân (Fiery Poems, 1896), Aks-i Sadâ (Echo, 1900).

PROSE: Safahât-ı Kalb (Phases of the Heart, love letters, 1901), Elhân-ı Vatan (Voices of the Country, 1916).

PLAY: Grive (The Hill, 3 acts, published in 1910, staged in 1912), Tasvir-i Aşk (Description of Love, not published).

MEMOIR: Nigar binti Osman: Hayatımın Hikâyesi (The Daughter of Osman: Story of My Life, a part of her memoirs which she requested to be opened after fifty years and in which were 20 notebooks, prepared by her son Salih Keramet Nigar, 1959).

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