Short-story writer and novelist (b.
1886 – d. 1940, İstanbul). He completed his primary and secondary education in
Aleppo and Beirut as a result of his father’s being a provincial governor.
After graduating form Medical School, he worked as a teacher at the Teacher
Training College (1909). From 1912 onwards, he transferred to the Quarantine
Administration and served in Cidde, Karaman, and Tebuk and during the years of
the Balkan Wars on the Yanya Front. During World War I and in the following
years (1927–34) he worked as a doctor in Saudi Arabia. He served as a health
manager in Antalya, Çanakkale and Samsun. His last post was at the State
Maritime Office where he worked as a doctor until he died in 1935.
He was famous for his novels such as
İnhizam (Rout) and Kadın Ruhu (The Spirit of a Woman), which were
serialized in the magazine Servet-i Fünun and in the journal Tanin. Although he
was one of the outstanding representatives of the “Dawn of the New Age
Movement”, his literary works are left incomplete because of the fact that he
spent most of his working life traveling to various places.
WORKS:
SHORT STORY: Ukde (Knot,
1909), Timsal-i Aşk (The Symbol of
Love, 1910).
NOVEL: İnhizam (Rout, 1909), Siyah Gözler (Black Eyes, 1910), Kadın Ruhu (The Spirit of a Woman,
1910).