Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil
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Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil (1867 in İstanbul - 27 March 1945 in İstanbul) was a Turkish author.
He moved with his father, a merchant, to İzmir, in 1879, where he attended a Christian school. His first literary works were translations of French novels, which played an important role in the Europeanization of Turkish literature.
Uşaklıgil founded the newspaper Hikmet in 1886. After 1896 his works were published in the Turkish literary journal Servet-i fünûn, known for its adoption of European literary styles.
After his novel Kırık Hayatlar (Broken Lives) was censored, Uşaklıgil paused, and later ceased, writing novels, turning instead to short stories, dramas, and memoirs after 1923.
Uşaklıgil's style is based closely on French Romanticism and most of his novels deal with unfulfilled love. His work is distinguished from contemporary Turkish literature by its more concrete form and creates its own artistic language through the use of Persian and Arabic loanwords.
[edit] Major works
Novels
- Nemide (1889)
- Bir Ölünün Defteri (1889)
- Ferdi ve Şürekâsı (1894)
- Mai ve Siyah (1897)
- Aşk-ı Memnu (1900)
- Kırık Hayatlar (1923)
Short Stories
- Bir Muhtıranın Son Yaprakları (1888)
- Bir İzdivacın Tarih-i Muaşakası (1888)
- Heyhat (1894)
- Solgun Demet (1901)
- Sepette Bulunmuş (1920)
- Bir Hikâye-i Sevda (1922)
- Hepsinden Acı (1934)
- Onu Beklerken (1935)
- Aşka Dair (1936)
- İhtiyar Dost (1939)
- Kadın Pençesinde (1939)
- İzmir Hikâyeleri (1950) (posthumous)
Dramas
Poetry
- Mensur Şiirler (1889)
Essays
[edit] External links
Biography of Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism (In Turkish)
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