Writer (b. 14 March 1927, İstanbul - d. 26 June 2005,
İstanbul). His full name is Ali Halim Neyzi. He is the grandson of the writer
Mehmet Ali Aynî and the father of writer Leyla Neyzi. He is a graduate of
Robert College High School for Boys (1946). He studied Business Management at
Harvard University with a scholarship 1955). He worked in Amsterdam as a
Turkish translator and broadcaster on BBC radio and as an English translator
and broadcaster on the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation’s Ankara Radio.
He started in the insurance business in 1950. He now works in Antalya. He is a
member of Writers Syndicate of Turkey.
He wrote his first novel when he finished Primary School.
His grandfather published it without knowing he was the author. He wrote theatre critiques in the journal Pazar Postası and the newspaper Vatan. He won the Ankara Art
Apprec-iation Association Award with his translation of Çıkmaz Sokak Çocukları (Children of Dead-End Street) written by D.Mamet and the İnönü
Foundation Award with his play Damdakiler
(Those on the Roof).
WORKS:
NOVEL: Sibirya Ormanlarında (In the Siberian
Forests, 1939), Hüseyin Paşa Çıkmazı No.
4 (Hüseyin Paşa, Dead-End No: 4, 1983), Meyzi
ile Neyzi (Meyzi and Neyzi, 1983), Dadı
(Nursemaid, 1984), Pafe (Pafe, 1985),
Işık (Light, 1986), Uzatmalı Sevgiliye Mektuplar (Extended
Love Letters, 1986), Dost Mektupları (Letters
of a Friend, 1988), Beyza-de/Paşazade (Son
of A Prince, 1991), Çoban (Shepherd,
1992), Gökdelen (Skyscraper,?), Gönüllü Sürgün (Voluntary Exile, ?), Benim Sigortacılarım (My Insurance
Agencies, 1998).
MEMOIR: Alma Mater (1984,
English edition, 1997), Lara Feneri Çakıp
Sönen Anılar (Lighthouse of Lara, Flashing and Fading Memories, 2003).
PLAY:
Damdakiler (Those On The Roof, 1987).
