Writer (b. 27 June 1921 - d. 9 October
1989, İstanbul). He also used the pen names Nevzat Çorum and Ziya Atılgan. He
attended Balıkesir High School and graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty
of Literature, Department of Turkish Language and Literature (1944). He worked
as a teacher of literature for a few months and as a farmer in Hacırahmanlı
Village in Manisa for a long time. Then he settled in İstanbul and worked in
different jobs.
He depicted the people
of villages and towns in his stories. He gained fame with his novel Aylak Adam (The Vagrant, 1959), which
came second at the Yunus Nadi Novel Award held by the newspaper Cumhuriyet in 1957-58 and with Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel, 1973),
which was later adapted for the cinema.
WORKS:
NOVEL: Aylak Adam (The Vagrant, 1959), Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel, 1973).
SHORT STORY: Bodur Minareden Öte (Beyond the Short
Minaret, 1960), Eylemci (The
Activist, 1994).
CHILDREN’S
LITERATURE: Ekmek Elden Süt Memeden
(Living off Others, 1981).
