Ceyhun Atuf Kansu
Ceyhun Atuf Kansu was a Turkish author, poet and medical doctor.
Life
He was born in İstanbul on 7 December 1919 to Nafi and Müfdale. After the death of his mother his father moved to Ankara, the capital of the nationalists. He graduated from the Gazi High School in Ankara in 1938 and the school of Medicine of İstanbul University in 1944. He served in the Numune Hospital in Ankara. Then for eleven years he served as a pediatrician in the clinic of the Sugar Factory in Turhal. After 1959 he returned to Ankara to serve in the clinics of the Sugar Factories in Ankara. He died on 10 March 1978. [1]
Literary career
During the early yeras of his career, he was interested in children . While serving in the hospital he opened a private clinic for the children in a poor neighborhood of Ankara. Later he also got interested in social issues and national independence. His books (some published after his death) are the following.[2]
- 1966:Atatürkçü Olmak (Being Kemalist)
- 1969:Atatürk ve Kurtuluş Savaşı (Atatürk and the National War of Independence)
- 1970:Buğday, Kadın, Gül ve Gökyüzü (Woman Rose and the Sky)
- 1971:Balım Kız Dalım Oğul (My daughter, the honey, my son the branch)
- 1972:Halk Önderi Atatürk (Leder Atatürk)
- 1972:Sevgi Elması (The Apple of Love)
- 1973:Cumhuriyet Ağacı (The Tree of the Republic)
- 1973:Cumhuriyet Bayrağı Altında (Under the Flag of the Republic)
- 1991:Bir Kasabadan Resimler (Photographs from a town)
- 1991:Güneş Salkımı (Bunch of Sun)
- 1994:Halk Albümü (People’s Album)
- 1996:Söylevi Okurken (While Reading the Speech)
- 2004:Kardeş Sofrası(Brother’s Table)
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