Ali Kâmi Akyüz

Writer and translator (B. 1873, Mecca - d. March 11, 1945, Ankara). He is the younger son of Behçet Bey, the poet from Trabzon and the brother of İsmail Safa. He was graduated from Ottoman Orphans (Darüşşafaka) High School (1891). He worked as an officer and record director in National Treasury for twenty three years. He was assigned to Foreign Ministry as consul. He worked in Post and Telegraph Private Secretary Directorate and then worked as principle in Ottoman Orphans (Darüşşafaka) High School (1920-39). He gave literature, translation, economy, French and sociology lectures. In 1939, he was elected as congressman from Istanbul and moved to Ankara.

His first writing was one of his homework and was published by Muallim Naci in Saadet newspaper (1890).  His first poem was a lyric he published when he was twenty years old (August 15, 1891). His poems and writings were published in Servet-i Fünûn, İçtihat, Gündüz, Resimli Gazete, Cumhuriyet. He had his original reputation with his translations from Goethe, G. Flaubert, Tolstoy, B. Constant. The literature journal Gündüz (1936-39), he published, was very famous journal among the youth of the era. He didn’t have many poems and they were not collected in as a book. Hakkı Tarık Us indicated that “he was a beautiful example of definition and sincerity in our literature.”

WORKS:

Yurt Bilgisi, İçtimaiyat.

REFERENCE: Hakkı Tarık Us / Elli Yıl Mecmuası (trz, p. 62-63), “Ağralı, Sedat” (Büyük Larousse, 1986), Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (ed.18,  1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (exp. ed.6, 1999), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001).