Novelist (b. 1902, İstanbul – d. 15 July 1977, İstanbul). He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Dentistry (1924) and İstanbul University, the Faculty of Law (1930). He worked as a journalist, a teacher of literature at various schools and as an attorney. He was at the parliament with having selected Urfa deputy (1954-60) and a senator (1962-66). He was buried to Zincirlikuyu Graveyard.
He
started his journalism career at the newspaper Tercüman-ı Hakikat at the time of armistice and he continued his
career in the newspaper İleri. His
novel serials, travel notes and interview were published in the newspapers such
as İkdam, Cumhuriyet, Tasvir and Yeni Sabah. He became popular with his
love and adventure novels that he wrote for less educated people. His many
novels were adapted to cinema.
WORKS:
Vahşi Bir
Kız Sevdim (I Loved a Wild
Girl, 1926), Aşkın Alevleri (Flames
of Love, 1926), Çölde Bir İstanbul Kızı
(An İstanbul Girl at Desert, 1926), Dağları
Bekleyen Kız (The Girl Who Waits the Mountains, 1934), Allah'a Ismarladık (Good Bye, 1936), Ölünceye Kadar (To the Death, 1937), Son Gece (The Last Night, 1938), Kadın Severse (When a Woman Loves, 1939), İlk ve Son (The First and the Last, 1940), Kocamı Aldatacağım (I Will Cheat On My Husband, 1940), Sokaktan Gelen Kadın (The Woman Who Came
from the Streets, 1945), Ankara Ekspresi
(Ankara Express, 1946), Bir Kadın
Kayboldu (A Woman is Lost, 1948), Ömrümün
Tek Gecesi (Only Night of My Life, 1949), Erikler Çiçek Açtı (Plums Bloomed, 1952), Son Tren (The Last Train, 1954), Kadın İsterse (When A Woman Wants, 1960).
