Murat Uraz

Researcher of literature (b. 1892, Trabzon – d. 19 December 1981, İstanbul). He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature in 1913. He worked as a teacher of literature at high schools in Trabzon, Erzurum and İstanbul and as the İstanbul Director of Public Education (1945-50). He was teaching at Vefa High School when he retired in 1957. His writing career started with a short story that was published in the newspaper Meşveret (Trabzon, 1913). He was known for his reference textbooks, anthologies and books that introduced authors. He also rewrote the folk tales that he had collected. He wrote more than sixty works.

WORKS:

Halk Edebiyatı Şiir ve Dil Örnekleri (Examples from Folk Poetry and Language, 1933), Edebiyat Antolojisi (Literature Anthology, in 6 volumes, 1938-40), Türk Edip ve Şairleri (Turkish Authors and Poets, in 4 volumes, 1939-40), Kadın Şair ve Muharrirlerimiz (Women Poets and Authors, 1941), Mükemmel Roman Hülasaları (Summaries of Great Novels, 1945), Vezin-Nazım (Meter - Verse, 1962), Türk Edebiyatından Seçme Özetler (Selected Summaries from Turkish Literature, 1962), Türk Mitolojisi (Turkish Mythology, 1967), etc.