List of Turkish writers
This list of Turkish writers includes people who wrote literature in the Turkish language ( Turkish literature ). The list can be sorted, but is still incomplete.
| First name | Surname | pseudonym | Born | Died | Literary genre | other languages | annotation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Kadir | Meriçboyu | A. Kadir | 1917 | 1985 | Poetry, translations | |||
| Abdülhak Hamit Tarhan | Tarhan | 1852 | 1937 | |||||
| Adnan Yücel | Yücel | 1953 | 2002 | Poetry | ||||
| Ahmed Arif | Arif | 1927 | 1991 | Poetry | ||||
| Ahmet Altan | Altan | 1950 | ||||||
| Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar | Tanpinar | 1901 | 1962 | Poetry, novel | ||||
| Ahmet Haşim | 1884 | 1933 | Poetry | |||||
| Ahmet Kutsi Tecer | Tecer | 1901 | 1967 | Poetry | Politician | |||
| Ahmet Muhip Dranas | Dranas | 1909 | 1980 | |||||
| Ahmet Oktay | Octay | 1933 | ||||||
| Ahmet Telli | Telli | 1946 | ||||||
| Akif Kurtuluş | Kurtuluş | 1959 | ||||||
| Alaadin Külcüoğlu | Külcüoğlu | 1967 | ||||||
| Ali Cengizkan | Cengizkan | 1954 | ||||||
| Arif Damar | Damar | 1925 | ||||||
| Arif Nihat Asya | Asya | 1904 | 1975 | |||||
| Asaf Halet Çelebi | Çelebi | 1907 | 1958 | |||||
| Ataol Behramoglu | Behramoglu | 1942 | ||||||
| Attila İlhan | İlhan | 1925 | 2005 | Poetry, novels | journalist | |||
| Ayten Mutlu | Mutlu | 1952 | ||||||
| Aziz Nesin | Nesin | 1915 | 1995 | Novels, short stories | ||||
| Bahattin Karakoç | Karakoç | 1930 | ||||||
| Bakî | 1526 | 1600 | ||||||
| Barış Uygur | 1978 | Crime fiction, satire | ||||||
| Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu | Eyüboğlu | 1911 | 1975 | |||||
| Behçet Kemal Çağlar | Çağlar | 1908 | 1969 | |||||
| Behçet Necatigil | Necatigil | 1916 | 1979 | |||||
| Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan | Erdoğan | 1926 | ||||||
| Cahit Irgat | Irgat | 1915 | 1971 | |||||
| Cahit Külebi | Külebi | 1917 | 1997 | |||||
| Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı | Tarancı | 1910 | 1956 | |||||
| Cahit Zarifoğlu | Zarifoğlu | 1914 | 1987 | |||||
| Can Dündar | Dündar | 1961 | ||||||
| Can Yücel | Yücel | 1926 | 1999 | |||||
| Celâl Sılay | Silay | 1914 | 1974 | |||||
| Celil Oker | Oker | 1952 | 2019 | Short stories, detective novels | Journalist, copywriter, translator | |||
| Cem Akas | Akas | 1968 | stories | |||||
| Cemil Meriç | Meriç | 1916 | 1987 | |||||
| Cevdet Kudret | Kudret | 1907 | 1992 | |||||
| Ceyhun Atuf Kansu | Kansu | 1919 | 1978 | |||||
| Coşkun Ertepınar | Ertepınar | 1912 | 2005 | |||||
| Dursun Akçam | Akçam | 1930 | 2003 | novel | Turkish German | Teacher, trade unionist, journalist and writer | ||
| Duygu Asena | Asena | 1946 | 2006 | novel | Journalist | |||
| Elif Shafak | Shafak | 1971 | Novel, short stories | Turkish, English | University professor | |||
| Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat | Fırat | 1923 | 2014 | Short stories, poems, essays | Poet, painter, composer | |||
| Faruk Nafız Çamlıbel | Çamlıbel | 1898 | 1973 | Drama, poetry | ||||
| Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca | Dağlarca | 1914 | 2008 | |||||
| Feride Çiçekoğlu | Çiçekoğlu | 1951 | also screenwriter, lecturer and engineer | |||||
| Ferit Edgü | Edgu | 1936 | Poetry, novel, scripts, essay | also critics | ||||
| Fuat Çiftçi | Çiftçi | 1970 | ||||||
| Gökhan Evliyaoğlu | Evliyaoğlu | |||||||
| Applied Akın | Akın | 1933 | ||||||
| Halide Edip Adıvar | Adıvar | 1884 | 1964 | Poetry, novel | English, Turkish | |||
| Halide Nusret Zorlutuna | Zorlutuna | 1901 | 1984 | |||||
| Halim Şefik Güzelson | Güzelson | 1913 | 1990 | |||||
| Halit Fahri Ozansoy | Ozansoy | 1891 | ||||||
| Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil | Uşaklıgil | 1866 | 1945 | novel | ||||
| Hasan Ali Toptaş | Toptaş | 1958 | Short stories, novel, | |||||
| Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil | Cork mazgi | 1927 | 1984 | |||||
| Hasan İzzettin Dinamo | Dinamo | 1909 | 1989 | |||||
| Hasan Sami Bolak | Bolak | 1942 | ||||||
| Hilmi Yavuz | Yavuz | 1936 | ||||||
| Hüseyin Nihal Atsız | Atsız | 1905 | 1975 | Novels, poetry, magazine articles | Teacher, ülkücü movement | |||
| Hüseyin Yurttaş | Yurttaş | 1946 | ||||||
| İbrahim Sadri | Sadri | 1963 | Musician ? | |||||
| İhsan Oktay Anar | Anar | 1960 | ||||||
| İhsan Raif Hanım | 1877 | 1926 | ||||||
| İlhan Berk | Berk | 1918 | 2008 | Poetry | ||||
| Karacaoğlan | 1606 | 1679 | ||||||
| Kaygusuz Abdal | 1341 | 1444 | ||||||
| Kemal Tahir | Tahir | 1910 | 1973 | novel | ||||
| Latife Tekin | Tekin | 1957 | Novels, screenplay | |||||
| Leyla Erbil | Erbil | 1931 | 2013 | Novels, short stories, essays | ||||
| Şakir Bilgin | Bilgin | 1951 | novel | Turkish German | ||||
| Dogan Akhanlı | Akhanlı | 1957 | novel | Turkish German | ||||
| Kemalettin Kamu | Kamu | 1901 | 1948 | |||||
| Kömürciyan Eremya Çelebi | 1637 | 1695 | Novel, short story, poetry, translator | Armenian, Turkish | ||||
| Köroğlu | Köroğlu | 16th Century | ||||||
| Pinar freestyle | Freestyle | 1943 | ||||||
| Kul Nesimi | Nesimi | 17th century | ||||||
| Lütfi | 1833 | 1898 | Armenian, Turkish | Newspaper publisher | ||||
| Mahzuni Serif | Serif | 1940 | 2002 | Poetry, song poetry | Musician | |||
| Mardiros Minakyan | Minakyan | 1837 | 1920 | Theater director | ||||
| Mehmet Akif Inan | İnan | 1940 | 2000 | |||||
| Mehmet Günsür | Günsür | 1955 | 2004 | stories | ||||
| Mehmet Mümtaz Tuzcu | Tuzcu | 1950 | ||||||
| Melih Cevdet Anday | Anday | 1915 | 2002 | Poetry, novels, dramas, plays, reports | surrealist | |||
| Mevlana Celaleddini Rumi | 1207 | 1273 | ||||||
| Memduh Şevket Esendal | Esendal | M. Ş. E. | 1883 | 1952 | stories | Ambassador, teacher | ||
| Mihrî Hatun | 1506 | |||||||
| Murat Uyurkulak | Uyurkulak | 1972 | novel | |||||
| Murathan Mungan | Mungan | 1955 | stories | |||||
| Mustafa Akyol | Akyol | 1972 | ||||||
| Mustafa Balel | Balel | 1945 | Stories, novels, children's and travel literature | French, Turkish | Associate Editor of the Larousse Encyclopedia | |||
| Nasuh Mahruki | Mahruki | |||||||
| İbrahim Abdülkadir Meriçboyu | Meriçboyu | 1917 | 1985 | Poetry, translations | ||||
| Nahit Ulvi Akgün | Akgun | |||||||
| Mehmed Kemal | Namid Kemal | 1840 | 1888 | Poetry, plays, | Newspaper editor, translator, young Turk | |||
| Nâzım Hikmet | Ran | 1902 | 1963 | Poetry, dramas | ||||
| Necati Cumalı | Cumalı | 1921 | 2001 | |||||
| Necip Fazıl Kısakürek | Kısakürek | 1905 | 1983 | Poetry | University professor Ankara | |||
| Neşet Ertaş | Ertaş | 1938 | 2012 | Song lyrics | Musician and composer | |||
| Nezihe Meriç | Meriç | 1925 | 2009 | Stories, children's books, plays | Publisher, women's literature | |||
| Niyazi Akıncıoğlu | Akıncıoğlu | 1919 | 1979 | |||||
| Nuri Pakdil | Pakdil | |||||||
| Nurullah Genç | Genç | 1960 | ||||||
| Oktay Rifat | Rifat | 1914 | 1988 | Poetry, plays | Lawyer, folk and surreal works | |||
| Oğuz Atay | Atay | 1934 | 1977 | Novellas, short stories | engineer | |||
| Onat Kutlar | Kutlar | 1936 | 1995 | Poems, stories, essays, plays, scripts | Co-founder of the Istanbul Film Festival | |||
| Orhan Kemal | Kemal | 1914 | 1970 | Novels | ||||
| Orhon Murat Arıburnu | Arıburnu | |||||||
| Orhan Pamuk | Pamuk | 1952 | Stories, novels | Nobel Prize for Literature, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, translated into 35 languages | ||||
| Orhan Seyfi Orhon | Orhon | 1890 | 1972 | |||||
| Orhan Veli Kanık | Kanık | Orhan Veli | 1914 | 1950 | Poetry | |||
| Osman Yüksel Serdengeçti | Serdengeçti | 1917 | 1983 | stories | ||||
| Oya Baydar | Baydar | 1940 | Novel, short stories | Journalist, publicist | ||||
| Ömer Asan | Asan | |||||||
| Ömer Bedrettin Uşaklı | Usaklı | 1904 | 1946 | |||||
| Ömer Faruk Toprak | Toprak | 1920 | 1979 | novel | ||||
| Ömer Seyfettin | 1884 | 1920 | Poetry, short stories, magazine articles | |||||
| Ozdemir Asaf | Asaf | 1923 | 1981 | |||||
| Özhan Öztürk | Öztürk | |||||||
| Ömer Osman | Osman | |||||||
| Peride Celal | Celal | |||||||
| Perihan Mağden | Mağden | |||||||
| Pinar freestyle | Freestyle | 1943 | Novel, short stories | Literary and theater scholar | ||||
| Rasim Haşmet Akal | 1880 | 1918 | Poetry | University professor f. Literature and Philosophy in Turkey | ||||
| Reşat Nuri Güntekin | Güntekin | 1889 | 1956 | Novels, short stories, plays | ||||
| Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem | 1847 | 1914 | Poetry, dramas, novels | Literary critic | ||||
| Refik Durbaş | Durbaş | 1944 | ||||||
| Rifat Ilgaz | Ilgaz | 1911 | 1993 | |||||
| Rüştü Onur | Onur | 1920 | ||||||
| Sabahattin Ali | Ali | 1907 | 1948 | Poetry, translations, newspaper articles, short stories, novels, short stories | Magazine editor | |||
| Sabahattin Eyüboğlu | Eyüboğlu | 1908 | 1973 | translator | University professor of literature in Istanbul | |||
| Sabahattin Kudret Aksal | Aksal | 1920 | 1993 | |||||
| Sabri Esat Siyavuşgil | Siyavuşgil | 1907 | 1968 | |||||
| Sait Faik Abasıyanık | Abasıyanık | 1906 | 1954 | Novels, short stories | Colloquial works | |||
| Salah Birsel | Birsel | 1919 | 1999 | |||||
| Salih Zeki Aktay | Aktay | |||||||
| Sevin Okyay | Okyay | |||||||
| Sezai Karakoç | Karakoç | 1933 | poetics | |||||
| Sıtkı Caney | Caney | |||||||
| Suat Taşer | Taşer | |||||||
| Talat Sait Halman | Halman | 1931 | ||||||
| Tarık Günersel | Günersel | 1953 | ||||||
| Tevfik Fikret | 1867 | 1915 | Poetry, magazine articles | |||||
| Turgut Uyar | Uyar | 1927 | 1985 | |||||
| Ugur Arslan | Arslan | |||||||
| Uğur Işılak | Işılak | |||||||
| Ugur Mumcu | Mumcu | 1942 | 1993 | Reports, plays | Journalist, lawyer | |||
| Ahmet Ümit | Ümit | 1960 | Detective novels, poems, stories, short stories, scripts, fairy tales | |||||
| Ülkü Tamer | Tamer | 1937 | 2018 | Poetry | ||||
| Vecihi Timuroğlu | Timuroğlu | 1927 | ||||||
| Vedat Turkali | Turkali | 1919 | 2016 | Scripts | ||||
| Yasar Kemal | Kemal | 1923 | 2015 | Novels, short stories | ||||
| Yusuf Akçura | Akçura | |||||||
| Yusuf Atilgan | 1921 | 1989 | novel | |||||
| Ziya Gökalp | 1876 | 1924 | Poetry | Young Turk , politician, magazine editor | ||||
| Zehra İpşiroğlu | İpşiroğlu | 1948 | Novel, translation | Literary and theater scholar | ||||