Tuna Baltacıoğlu

Karikatürist, Yazar

Doğum
06 Haziran, 1924
Ölüm
12 Mart, 2012
Eğitim
Istanbul University Faculty of Art Department of English Philology
Burç
Diğer İsimler
Efe

Writer (b. 6 July 1924, İstanbul - d. 12 March 2012, İstanbul). He has also used the pen name “Efe”. Son of the writer İsmayıl Hakkı Baltacıoğlu, and relative of the writer Memet Fuat, he graduated from Robert College (1944). He completed his education at İstanbul University, Faculty of Art, Department of English Philology. He decided to become a periodical publisher, and began to publish the periodical Dost in 1946. But this periodical and the storybook that he published with Memet Fuat were seized by the government.

In the same period, he worked for newspapers such as Akın (1945-46, Mersin), Son Posta (1949-50) as a writer and correspondent. He published, together with Memet Fuat, the review Kısa Hikâye Cep Kitapları (8 issues, 1947-49) and Kitaplar (11 issues, 1950) with Memet Fuat and his friends

He was one of the founders of the Altınyurt Sports Club, and worked there as general secretary (1959-66) and director (1966-95). He staged six plays in the amateur theatre of the club, and he was also interested in caricature and painting. His stories and translations were published in Yeni Adam and in Seçilmiş Hikâyeler from 1941 onwards. He wrote in Cumhuriyet mostly about education (1991-97). He has continued his work in İstanbul.

WORKS:

SHORT STORY: Aşk ve Sümüklüböcek (Love and the Snail, together with Memet Fuat, 1946), İnsanlarımız (Our People, 1996).

MEMOIR: Yeni Adam Günleri (The Days of New Man, 1998), Savaş İçinde Barış: Kore Savaşı Anıları (Peace Inside the War: Memoirs of the Korean War, 2000).

TRAVEL LITERATURE: Bilinmeyen Yolları ve Yönleriyle Yugoslavya (Yugoslavia with its Unknown Ways and Features, 1979).

RESEARCH-STUDY: Çağdaş Eğitim Üzerine (About Contemporary Education, 1996), Altınyurt: 40 Yılın Öyküsü (Altınyurt: The Story of Forty Years, 1999).

He has also translated from English to Turkish.

REFERENCE: Cumhuriyet Kitap / Altınyurt... (2.3.2000), TBE Ansiklopedisi I (2001), TDOE-TDE Ansiklopedisi 2 (2002), İhsan Işık / Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, 2007), Tuna Baltacıoğlu'nu Kaybettik (kadikoysporkulubu.com, 15 Mart 2012).

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