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Ali Haydar (Playwright)

Ali Haydar (Playwright)

Birth
1836
Bursa, Turkey
Death
1914
Istanbul, Turkey

Playwright (B. 1836, Mihaliç- D. 1914, İstanbul). He was the son of Post and Telegraph Minister Sağır Ahmet Bey and had a private education. He worked as officer in state office, as a stenographer in Paris embassy (1857-61), as a documentation manager in Sublime Porte. Although he published a kid’s journal called Mecmua-i İntibah, he was known as the writer of first poetical scripts after Şinasi’s Şair Evlenmesi. His scripts were found weak in many aspects such as technique, Language, style.

WORKS:

Sergüzeşt-i Perviz (1866), İkinci Ersas (1866), Rüya Oyunu (comedy, 1875).

REFERENCE: Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (ed. 18, 1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (exp. ed.6,  1999), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001).

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