Literature researcher (b. 1942, İstanbul). After
attending Notre Dame de Sion Private French School for Girls and Erenköy High
School for Girls, she graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of
Literature, Department of Turkish Language and Literature. After working as a
high school teacher, she served as a lecturer at the Institute of Turkology (1970). She became an
assistant in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature (1974) and then
became a literature professor with her thesis on Victor Hugo'dan Türkçe'ye Yapılan Tercümeler Üzerinde Bir
Araştırma (A Research on the
Turkish Translations of Victor Hugo Between the Years 1865-1910, 1975) and she
became a assistant professor with her thesis on Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil'in Romanlarında Batılı Yaşayış Tarzı
ile İlgili Unsurlar (The
Elements Related to Western Lifestyle in Novels of Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil 1980).
Her compilations and translation works have been
published in Türk
Dili ve Edebiyatı Ansiklopedisi (Turkish Language and Literature Encyclopedia)
and the reviews Türkiyat Mecmuası, Türk
Edebiyatı, Hareket, Dünya Edebiyatından Seçmeler, Tarih, Millî Kültür etc.
WORKS:
Edebiyat Üzerine Makaleler
(Articles on Literature, prepared
for publication by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, 1969), Sergüzeşt (Adventure, simplification from Sami
Paşazade Sezai, 1972), Mektuplar (The
Letters, edited by A. H. Tanpınar, 1974), 1862-1910
Yılları Arasında Victor Hugo'dan Yapılan Tercümeler Üzerinde Bir Araştırma
(A Research on the Turkish
Translations of Victor Hugo Between the Years 1865-1910, PhD
Thesis, 1978), Yeni Türk Edebiyatı
Antolojisi III (The New Turkish Literature Anthology, with M. Kaplan, İ.
Enginün and B. Emil, 1979), Sami Paşazade
Sezai'nin Hikâye-Hâtıra-Mektup ve Edebî Makaleleri (Short Stories- Memories-
Letters and Literary Articles of Sami Paşazade Sezai, 1981), Ahmet Haşim Bütün Şiirleri (Ahmet Haşim,
All Poems, with İ. Enginün, 1987).
