Kerime Nadir

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Kerime Nadir (born February 5, 1917 in Istanbul as Kerime Nadir Azrak , † March 20, 1984 ibid) was a Turkish writer of modern Turkish literature . Most of her romance novels were filmed in Turkey, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.

Life

Kerime Nadir was the daughter of the tax officer Nadir Azrak and granddaughter of Yahya Reşit Efendi, a Hattat from Şebinkarahisar and Kadi in Egypt, which at that time formally belonged to the Ottoman Empire . Nadir graduated from the Saint Joseph Girls College in Istanbul's Bebek district .

She began writing poems and short stories for the Servet-i Fünûn - Uyanış and Yarımay magazines . Her first novels followed in the magazines Yedigün , Aydabir and Hayat .

Kerime Nadir wrote her novels in the tradition of sentimentalistic literature, which began in the early 20th century with Güzide Sabri Aygün's novel منوّر ( Münevver ).

The protagonists in her novels were always ideal characters: the heroes of the novel were good-looking and successful, the heroines of the novel were beautiful and virtuous. Conflicts arose because of class differences or because of the different values ​​in town and country. Women in Kerime Nadir's novels attracted the heroes of the novel because of their beauty and virtue, which their competitors lacked. For marketing reasons, Kerime Nadir and Muazzez Tahsin's books had a certain eye-catching look that she attributed to Kerime Nadir and Muazzez Tahsin on bookshelves : on the book cover there was a young woman alone or with a young man in pastel colors. Then there was the catchy and dramatic book title such as B. Son Hıçkırık (The Last Sob).

In an interview, she explained why she had chosen romance novels as follows: What impresses her most in life and encourages her to write is infidelity, egoism and people's lack of empathy when it comes to love.

Despite its great success, Nadir's style was often criticized as unliterary by other Turkish writers of the day .

Her 1950 novel Posta güvercini (The Carrier Pigeon) was translated into French. She wrote more than 40 novels with more than 200 editions, which together sold more than 5 million copies. Her books are still being reprinted today.

Many of her novels have been made into films, some several times. Nadir wrote the script himself for many of the film adaptations. In the film adaptations of the 1950s, the main roles played u. a. Muhterem Nur , Kenan Pars , Belgin Doruk , Göksel Arsoy . In the film adaptations of the 1960s and 1970s, the main roles mostly played Türkân Şoray , Ediz Hun , Kartal Tibet , Hülya Koçyiğit , Filiz Akın . A title song of the same name was composed for many of the film adaptations, B. Funda sung by Suat Sayın and Bora Dinletir, Samanyolu sung by Berkant , Seven Ne Yapmaz sung by Esin Engin, Zambaklar Açarken sung by Erol Büyükburç , Dert Bende sung by Kamuran Akkor and Ajda Pekkan and composed by Orhan Gencebay . One of her most successful novels, Samanyolu (The Milky Way), was last made into a film for the third time in 2009 after the films made in 1959 and 1967.

Works

  • Yeşil Işıklar (The Green Lights) / 1937
  • Hıçkırık (The Sobbing) / 1938
  • Günah Bende mi? (Have I committed the sin?) / 1939
  • Seven Ne Yapmaz (What A Lover Doesn't Do) / 1940
  • Gönül Hırsızı (Thief of Hearts) / 1941
  • Kalp Yarası (wound of the heart) / 1941
  • Samanyolu (The Milky Way) / 1941
  • Funda ( a male and female name / Erika ) / 1943
  • Sonbahar (autumn) / 1943
  • Gelinlik Kız (Girls of Marriage Age) / 1943
  • Uykusuz Geceler (Sleepless Nights) / 1945
  • Aşka Tövbe (turning away from love) / 1945
  • Kahkaha (laughter) / 1946
  • Balayı (Honeymoon) / 1946
  • Solan Ümit (Pale Hope) / between 1946 and 1948 (the first edition does not give a year)
  • Ormandan Yapraklar (Leaves from the Forest) / 1948
  • O Gün Gelecek mi? (Will that day come?) / 1948
  • Aşk Rüyası (Love Dream) / 1949
  • Posta Güvercini (The Carrier Pigeon) / 1950
  • Ruh Gurbetinde (In the Spiritual Strange) / 1953
  • Pervane (propeller / rotor) / 1955
  • Son Hıçkırık (The Last Sob) / 1956
  • Kırık Hayat (A Broken Life) / 1957
  • Esir Kuş (The Captive Bird) / 1957
  • Aşk Bekliyor (Love Awaits) / 1959
  • Gümüşselvi (The Silver Cypress) / 1960
  • Boş Yuva (Empty Home) / 1962
  • Bir Aşkın Romanı (The Novel of a Love) / 1962
  • Dehşet Gecesi (The Night of Horror) / 1963
  • Suya Düşen Hayal (The Past Dream) / 1964
  • Saadet Tacı (The Lucky Crown) / 1966
  • Sisli Hatıralar (Foggy Memories) / 1967
  • Güller ve Dikenler (roses and thorns) / 1972
  • Zambaklar Açarken (When the Lilies Bloomed) / 1973
  • Karar Gecesi (Night of Decision) / 1973
  • Dert Bende (I bear the grief) / 1973
  • Kaderin Sırrı (The Secret of Fate) / 1976
  • Bir Çatı Altında (Under One Roof) / 1979
  • Romancının Dünyası (The World of a Novelist) / 1981 (Memoirs)
  • Aşk Fısıltıları (Whispers of Love) / 1983

literature

  • Mehmet Aydın: Ne yazıyor bu kadınlar: Osmanlıdan günümüze örnekleriyle kadın yazar ve şairler. Ankara 1995, ISBN 975-7923-12-5 , p. 72 ff.
  • Erich Frauwallner et al .: Die Weltliteratur: biographical, literary-historical and bibliographical lexicon in overviews and key words. Vienna 1951–1954, p. 316 ff.
  • Mediha Göbenli: Contemporary Turkish Women’s Literature. Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87997-307-5 .
  • Louis Mitler: Contemporary Turkish Writers: A Critical Bio-bibliography Of Leading Writers In The Turkish Republican Period Up To 1980. Indiana 1988, pp. 155 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography by Doğan Kitap
  2. ^ Mediha Göbenli: Contemporary Turkish women's literature. P. 48.
  3. ^ Oğuz Cebeci in Journal of Modern Turkish Studies. - the literature of the sentimentalist women writers of the early to mid-Republican period, such as Muazzez Tahsin Berkand and Kerime Nadir.
  4. ↑ Rana Tekcan: Jane Austen in Turkey. In: Jane Austen Society of North America.
  5. ↑ Article in haber7 from January 20, 2010.
  6. ^ Ministry of Culture of Turkey
  7. ↑ Samanyolu (2009) at IMDB.
  8. ↑ Samanyolu (1959) at IMDB.
  9. ↑ Samanyolu (1967) at IMDB.
  10. ↑ a b Ministry of Culture Turkey
personal data
SURNAME Nadir, Kerime
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nadir Azrak, Kerime (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1984
Place of death Istanbul