Salahaddin Enis

          Novelist (b. 1892, Antalya – d. 11 June 1942, İstanbul). He left İstanbul Faculty of Law early due to the beginning of the World War I and joined the army. After the armistice, he worked as a clerk at the Senate and as a supervisor and person in charge of editing and publication at the Maritime Office. He died of pneumonia. He is buried in Feriköy Graveyard. He began his career as a journalist in the newspaper Tanin in 1912. He published a literature review called Kaplan (1919). He worked as the chief editor for the newspaper Şebab (1920-21). His articles and stories were also published in the reviews Fağfur (1918), Şair (1918-19) and Nedim (1919). He became well known for his stories and novels in which he wrote about people living in the wealthy districts of İstanbul during World War I.

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