Playwright (b.
10 February 1884, İstanbul - d. 15 March 1913). Ruhsan Nevvare is a pen name
for the writer. Her real name was Hadiye Ebüzziya. Her father’s name was
Selimoğlu. She was the wife of Talha Ebüzziya, and the mother of Ziyad Ebüzziya,
the journalist and writer. She graduated from İstanbul Teacher Training School.
She learned English and French at private courses. Her three-act play Jön Türk (The Young Turk) was staged at
the Osmanlı Theater of Mınakyan Efendi in the same year it was written (2
October 1908).
She established
the first women’s foundation, the Association of Women, together with Halide
Edip Adıvar. Halide Edip was the chairwoman of the association and Nevvare
became the secretary (1909). She died of tuberculosis at a very young age. She
is buried in the family graveyard in Bakırköy.
WORKS:
Jön Türk (The Young Turk, in collaboration
with Tahsin Nahid, 1908; staged at the Osmanlı Theater of Manakyan Efendi in
the same year), Sanatkârlar (Artists,
1908), Aşkımız (Our Love, prose, not
published).