Sabahattin Eyüboğlu

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Sabahattin Eyüboğlu (1908 – January 13, 1973) was a Turkish writer and essayist.

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Sabahatttin Eyüboğlu was born in 1908 in the Black Sea coast town of Akçaabat near Trabzon into the large family of Eyüboğlu, well-known in Turkey, who claim to descend, not without historical justification, from the Ayyubid dynasty founded by Saladin.

He was principally a widely popular essayist, as well as a translator into Turkish of several important works of the world literature, such as Shakespeare. Besides, he made translations from Plato, La Fontaine, Melville, Camus, Rabelais, Jean-Paul Sartre and Aristophanes. His translations are still admitted to be the main references in the Turkish language for the works of such authors as Montaigne and Omar Khayyam. Without being the sole contributor, he is also largely credited for re-introducing the 12th century Turkish poet Yunus Emre for the taste of the contemporary Turkish intelligentsia and the reading public.

Along with Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (alias "The Fisherman of Halicarnassus") and Azra Erhat, he is also in the origin of the literary and touristic term, "the Blue Cruise" ("Mavi Yolculuk" in Turkish).

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