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Mehmet Rauf (born August 24, 1875 in Balat , Istanbul ; † December 25, 1931 ibid) was an Ottoman author who belongs to the Edebiyat-ı Cedîde current.

Life

Rauf attended the military Soğukçeşme School and then graduated from the Naval Academy in 1893 as a naval officer. In 1884 Rauf went to the Ottoman island of Girit as an intern . Rauf was later a liaison officer on the embassy ships in Trabya. Mehmet Rauf married a total of three times. His first wife was the daughter of the aunt of the famous writer Tevfik Fikret . In 1908 Rauf left the Navy and earned his living with his writings.

He wrote for various periodicals, including Servet-i Fünun . His best known work Eylül (September) is considered the first "psychological" novel in Turkish literature . He also published two women's magazines called Mehasin (1909) and Süs (1923).

Works

Poetry book

• Siyah İnciler (1900)

Novels

• Eylül (1900/1901)
• Ferda-yı Garam (1913), Love Without Tomorrow, 163 pages, Manzara Verlag, Pfungstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-939795-24-7
• Karanfil ve Yasemin (1924)
• Genç Kız Kalbi (1914)
• Böğürtlen (1926)
• Son Yıldız (1927)
• Halas (1929)
• Kan Damlası (1928)
• Define (1927)
• Bir Zambak Hikayesi (1910)

Plays

• Cidal (1922)
• Sansar (1920)
• Ceriha (1923)
• Ferdi ve şürekası (1909)
• Pence (1909)
• Yağmurdan Doluya (1919)

literature

• Hilda Pearson, James Douglas Pearson: The encyclopaedia of Islam, Volume 4, Brill, 1989, ISBN 9004088490 , page 995

Web links

• Biography of the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
• Biography of the Turkish Culture Foundation
• Mehmet Rauf in the Internet Movie Database (English)