Ebubekir Hazım Tepeyran

Writer (b. 1864, Niğde – d. 5 June 1947, İstanbul). He graduated from Niğde Secondary School. He then took private courses. He began his life a as civil servant in Niğde and was later promoted and given important tasks such as the Provincial Governor of Dedeağaç (Alexandroupolis) and governor of provinces such as Mosul, Baghdad, Monastir, Sivas, Ankara, Hejaz, Beirut, Bursa and as member of the Council of the State. During the Damat Ferit Paşa government, when he was Governor of Bursa and the Minister of Internal Affairs, he was sentenced to death because of his assisting the National Struggle (1920), but the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.

His only novel, Küçük Paşa (Little Paşa), was one of the early works of the pastoral novel after Nabizade Nazım’s Karabibik (Karabibik). He also wrote stories and poems in Turkish and French.

WORKS:

NOVEL: Küçük Paşa (Little Paşa, 1910; new edition, 1984).

SHORT STORY: Küçük Şeyler (Little Things, 1910).

AUTHOBIOGRAPHY: Zalimane Bir İdam Hükmü (A Cruel Judgment of Death, 1946)

MEMOIR: Canlı Tarihler (Lively Histories), Ebubekir Hazım Tepeyran-Hatıraları (Ebubekir Hazım Tepeyran- His Memoirs, 1947), Belgelerle Kurtuluş Savaşı Anıları (The Memoirs of the Turkish War of Independence with Documents, 1982).