Necati Cumalı

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Necati Cumalı

Born 1921
Florina, Greece
Died 10 January 2001
Istanbul, Turkey

Necati Cumalı (1921 – 10 January 2001) is a Turkish novelist, short-story writer and poet born in Florina, Greece, and whose family had settled in Urla near İzmir in the framework of the 1923 agreement for population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

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[edit] Biography

He grew up in Urla and did his studies in İzmir and in the Law School of the University of Ankara. He started writing poetry while still a student and his poems were published as of early 1940's in such prominent Turkish literary periodicals as Varlık and Servet-i Fünun. Toward the end of that decade, while doing military service, he also started writing short stories in which the profound influence of another important Turkish writer, Sabahattin Ali, could be felt.

Author of about 15 books of poetry, and that many books of short-stories and novels, as well as plays, Necati Cumalı died on 10 January 2001 in Istanbul.

One of his best known titles is the short-novel, "Dry Summer" (Susuz Yaz), adapted by the film director Metin Erksan to cinema in 1964 starring Hülya Koçyiğit and Erol Taş, and which won the Golden Bear award in Berlin Film Festival that year. Another famous novel by Necati Cumalı is "Devastated Hills: Macedonia 1900" (Viran Dağlar: Makedonya 1900), where he relates the history of his own family which descended from a long line of Turkish Beys (Cuma Beyleri, "the Beys of Djuma"), with the turmoil in the Balkans providing the background. This novel has been adapted (not very faithfully) for the television by Michel Favart in 2001 as a multinational ARTE production under the title "Le dernier Seigneur des Balkans".[1]

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Poetry
  • "Kızılçullu Yolu" (1943)
  • "Harbe Gidenin Şarkıları" (1945)
  • "Mayıs Ayı Notları" (1947)
  • "Güzel Aydınlık" (1951)
  • "Denizin İlk Yükselişi" (1954)
  • "İmbatla Gelen" (1955)
  • "Güneş Çizgisi" (1957)
  • "Yağmurlu Deniz" (1968)
  • "Başaklar Gebe" (1970)
  • "Ceylan Ağıdı" (1974)
  • "Aç Güneş" (1980)
  • "Bozkırda Bir Atlı" (1981)
  • "Yarasın Beyler" (1982)
Stories
  • "Yalnız Kadın" (1955)
  • "Değişik Gözle" (1956)
  • "Susuz Yaz" (1962)
  • "Ay Büyürken Uyuyamam" (1969)
  • "Makedonya 1900" (1976)
  • "Kente İnen Kaplanlar" (1976)
Novels
  • "Tütün Zamanı" (1959)
  • "Yağmurlar ve Topraklar" (1973)
  • "Acı Tütün" (1974)
  • "Aşk da Gezer" (1975)
  • "Viran Dağlar" (1994)
Essays
  • "Niçin Aşk" (1971)
  • "Senin İçin Ey Demokrasi" (1976)
  • "Etiler Mektupları" (1982)
Diaries
  • "Yeşil Bir At Sırtında" (1987)

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Arte.tv - Le dernier Seigneur des Balkans (French)

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