Journalist-author, founder of the
Turkish newspaper Hürriyet (B. 1896,
Istanbul- D. December 11th, 1953, Istanbul). He was the son of Governor Hamdi Simavi. He
was a student in Saint Joseph High School for a while; he graduated from
Galatasaray High School (1912). He worked as a journalist, moviemaker, writer
and caricaturist. He used the following pen names as well; Naşide Refik,
Hüsamettin Ali, A. Cevdet, M. Reşit, Faik Remzi, A. Şekip, Rüştü, Abdullah
Sıtkı, Rasim Servet, Çileli, Fuat Refik, Güleryüz, Hanım. He began his carrier
in journalism with the weekly Turkish-German magazine Hande (1916). He published the following magazines and newspapers Diken
(1918), İnci (1919), Dersaadet (1920), Payitaht (1920),
Güleryüz (1921), Hanım (1921), Hacıyatmaz (1921), Yeni
İnci (1922), Resimli Gazete (1923), Yıldız (1924), Meraklı
Gazete (1926), Yeni Kitap (1927), Arkadaş (1928), Bravo (1930)
with the most famous ones being the weekly magazine Yedigün (first issue: March 15th, 1933) and the daily newspaper Hürriyet (first issue: May 1st, 1948).
Sedat Simavi, who was one of the
important names of Turkish cinema as well as the Turkish journalism, directed
three films called “Pençe”, “Casus” and “Alemdar Vakası”, which were his first
thematic films. Sedat Simavi, who had many of his articles published in the
newspapers and magazines that he owned, published around sixty books in review,
story, novel and theater categories. His tomb is in Kanlıca. Annual awards are
given by Sedat Simavi Foundation, which was founded in 1977 after his death, in
literature, art and social sciences categories.
WORKS:
NOVEL: Fujiyama (1934).
PLAY: Hürriyet Apartmanı (1940),
Düşenin Dostları (play, 1940), Ceza (play, 1941).
REVIEW: J.J. Rousseau (1931).
CARICATURE ALBUM: Yeni
Zenginler (1918), Kadınlar Saltanatı (1920), Paramparça: Yeni
Zenginler, Harp Fakirleri, (prepared by. T. Çeviker, 1993).
OTHER: Bir Günde
Okuyorum (1928), Ayhan’ın Kitabı (1929), Sesli Sessiz ve Renkli
Sinema (1931), Fuzuli (1931), Ahmet Mithat Efendi (1931), Nedim
(1931), Osman Paşa (1931), Ziya Paşa (1931), Ziya Gökalp
(1931), Annenin Kitabı (tsz.), Bilen de Pişman Bilmeyen de
(tsz.), Eserleri (1973), Hürriyet’teki Yazılarıyla Sedat Simavi
(1983). His works were collected in a book called Sedat Semavi / Eserleri (1973).