Writer (b. 24 October 1926,
Kayseri – d. 12 August 2009, İstanbul). She attended primary and secondary
schools in Kayseri. She graduated from Istanbul University Department of
Turcology (1948). She continued as a librarian, a job she had started in the
same year at Beyazıt Public Library, at İstanbul University, Department of
Literature. Going to Germany with a scholarship from UNESCO, she received
training in documentation and scientific information.
On her return to Turkey, she gave
a course related to her area of study at İstanbul University, Faculty of
Literature, Department of Librarianship, where she had last worked. In this
department she became associate professor in 1972 and professor in 1980. She
retired in 1933 when she was working as Chair of the Department. She continues
to work in İstanbul. She is one of the founders of the Library and Information
Center of Women’s Works and a member of Turkish Librarians' Association. She
married the writer Tarık Buğra in 1950 and they were divorced in 1968. Her
daughter from this marriage, Ayşe Buğra Kavala is an economics professor at
Boğaziçi University.
Her short stories and articles
have been published in newspapers and reviews such as Zeytindalı,
Milliyet, Cumhuriyet, Çağdaş Eleştiri etc. since 1948. With her play called Cennetlik İbrahim Efendi (İbrahim
Efendi, Deserving of Heaven) and which she wrote with the inspiration of
the life of İbrahim Müteferrika, she won the Foundation of the State Theater
and Opera House Artists Best Playwright Award in 1986.
WORKS:
PLAY: İstanbul Türküsü (Folksong of İstanbul, 1970), Cennetlik İbrahim Efendi (İbrahim Efendi, Deserving of Heaven,
1992)
STUDY-RESEARCH:
Müteferrika'dan Birinci Meşrutiyet'e Kadar
Osmanlı Türklerinin Bastıkları Eserler (The Works
Published by Ottoman Turks From the Time of Müteferrika, the First Turkish
Printer, to the First Constitutional Monarchy, 1968), Resmi Daire Kütüphaneleri ve Dokümantasyon Merkezleri (Libraries
and Documentation Centers of Official Bureaus, 1972), Kütüphanecilik Alanında Yeni Kavramlar, Araçlar, Yöntemler (New
Concepts, Tools, Methods About Librarianship, 1982), Kitap ve Kütüphane Tarihine Giriş (Introduction to the History of
Books and Libraries, 1991), Yönetim ve Mevzuat (Administration and Legislation, Managing
Library Administration, 1991), Kütüphanecilik
(Librarianship, 1993).
