Novelist
(b. 1906, İstanbul – d. 29 March 1966). He attended İstanbul Kabataş High
School for Boys (1922) and the School of Engineering and graduated from the
Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture (1929). He worked as the
Director of Technical Works at Adana Municipality and then became the First
Architect of the Ministry of National Education (1932). Later he worked as a
freelance architect and contractor. He was one of the most famous
representatives of the historical novel in Turkish literature. Most of his
works have been filmed for the cinema.
WORKS:
Kızıltuğ
(Red Head, 1923), Atlı Han (The Khan
on a Horse, 1924), Türk Korsanları
(Turkish Pirates, 1926), Seyit Ali Reis
(Captain Seyit Ali, 1927), Gültekin
(Gültekin, 1928), Kozanoğlu
(Kozanoğlu, 1929), Kolsuz Kahraman
(Armless Hero, 1930), Savcı Bey (Mister
Public Attorney, 1931), Sarıbenizli Adam
(The White Man, 1932), Malkoçoğlu
(Malkoçoğlu, 1933), Patronalılar (Men
of Patrona, 1934), Tavşanbaşı (Head
of the Rabbit, 1935), Tokat (Slap,
1936), Battal Gazi Destanı (Epic of
Battal Gazi, 1937), Sencivanoğlu
(Sencivanoğlu, 1938), Fatih Feneri
(The Lighthouse of Fatih, 1949), Karakoldaki
Ayna (Mirror at the Police Headquarters, 1950), Dağlar Delisi (Madman on the Mountain, 1951), Hilâl ve Haç (The Crescent and the Cross, 1958), Kızıl Kadırga (Red Warship, 1962), Arena Kraliçesi (Queen of the Arena,
1964), Kubilay Han'ın Gelini (Bride
of Kublai Khan, 1966).
