Rifat Ilgaz
Rıfat Ilgaz (born April 24, 1911 in Cide , Vilayet Kastamonu , Ottoman Empire , today Kastamonu Province , Turkey ; † July 7, 1993 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish writer. The film adaptation of his novel Hababam Sınıfı is particularly popular in Turkey.
Works
Volumes of poetry
- Yarenlik (The Friendship) 1943
- Sınıf (The Class) 1944
- Yaşadıkça (If We Had Lived) 1947
- Devam (next) 1953
- Üsküdarda Sabah Oldu (Morning breaks in Üsküdar) 1954
- Soluk Soluğa (Out of Breath) 1962 / Excerpts and additions from his previous books
- Karakılçık (The Black Fishbone) 1969
- Uzak Değil (Not Far - Collected Poems) 1971
- Güvercinim Uyur must (Is my pigeon sleeping?) 1974
- Bütün Şiirleri (nine-volume work edition) 1983
- Bütün Şiirleri: 1927–1991 (expanded new edition, 2004)
- Kulağımız Kirişte (We are all ears) 1983
- Ocak Katırı Alagöz (The January mule roach) 1987 / awarded the Ömer Faruk Toprak Prize
Novels
- Pijamalılar. Bizim Koğuş (Sleepyheads - Our Troop) 1959
- Hababam Sınıfı (The Chaos Class) 1957 (as a film in 1975)
- Karadenizin Kıyıcığında (On the Black Sea Coast) 1969 (as a play in 1965)
- Karartma Geceleri (Dark Nights) 1974
- Sarı yazma (The Yellow Manuscript) 1976
- Yıldız Karayel (The Northwest Wind Star) 1981
- Halime Kaptan (Captain Halime) 1972
Children's books
- Cankurtaran Yılmaz (Yilmaz Lifesaver) 1979
- Öksüz Civciv (The Orphaned Chick) 1979
- Bacaksız Kamyon Sürucüsü (German: The three-cheese high and the giant melon) 1977
- Bacaksız Sigara Kaçakçısı (German: The three-cheese-boy at the police station) 1980
- Bacaksız Paralı Atlet (The Three Cheese High: The Professional Runner) 1980
- Bacaksız Okulda (German: The three-cheese-boy at school) 1980
- Bacaksız Tatil Köyünde (Dreikäsehoch in the holiday camp) 1980
- Küçük Çekmece Okyanusu (The Ocean Küçükçekmece) 1979
- Apartman Çocukları (Apartment Children) 1984
- Dördüncü Bölük 1992
- Çocuk Bahçesi: Poems for Children 1995
- Kumdan Betona
Children's books in German translation
- The three cheese high and the giant melon. Edition Orient , Berlin 2006; ISBN 978-3-922825-68-5
- The three cheese high at the police station. Edition Orient , Berlin 2007; ISBN 978-3-922825-70-8
- The three-cheese high in school. Edition Orient , Berlin 2008; ISBN 978-3-922825-72-2
The German-Turkish graphic artist and illustrator Tülay Sözbir-Seidel (* 1972) has illustrated all the volumes in the Dreikäsehoch series that have appeared in Germany .
Satires / humoresques / short stories
- Radarın Anahtarı (The Radar Key) 1957
- Don Kişot Istanbul'da (Don Quixote in Istanbul) 1957
- Kesmeli Bunları (They should be circumcised) 1962
- Nerede O Eski Usturalar (Where are those old razors?) 1962
- Saksağanın Kuyruğu (The Tail of the White Wagtail) 1962
- Şevket Ustanin Kedisi (Master Sevket's Cat) 1965
- Geçmişe Mazi (The Earlier Past) 1965
- Garibin Horozu (The Rooster of the Strange) 1969
- Altın Eskicisi (The Golden Junk Shop) 1972
- Palavra (Stupid Chatter) 1972 (published as early as 1957 under the title "Don Quixote in Istanbul")
- Tuh Sana (I haunt you) 1972
- Çatal Matal Kaç Çatal (Gabel Mabel ... which fork?) 1972
- Bunadı bu Adam (This Man Has Become Childish) 1972
- Keş (Simple-Minded) 1972
- Al Altını (Take the Gold) 1972
- Hababam Sınıfı Baskında (The Assault on the Chaos Class) 1972
- Hababam Sınıfı Uyuyor (The Chaos Class Asleep) 1972
- Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı (The Chaos Class Failed) 1971
- Caliş Osman Ciftlik Senin (Work Osman, the farm is yours) 1983
- Sosyal Kadınlar Partisi (The Party of Society Women) 1983
- Apartman Çocukları (The Apartment House Children) 1984 / Roman
- Hoca Nasrettin ve Çömezleri (Nasrettin Hoca and his students) 1984 / Roman
- Hababam Sınıfı Icraatın Içinde (The Total Number of Deeds of the Chaos Class) 1987
- Rüsvetin Almancası (The corruptible German) 1982
- Mesruriyet Kıraathanesi (The Coffee House of the Constitutional Monarchy) 1974
- Başkasın Demokrasi (You are a different democracy) 1988
- Şeker Kutusu (The Confectionery Box) 1990
- Büyükkarı Küçükkarı (Big Women - Little Women) 1990
- Bir Namussuz Aranıyor (Despicable One Wanted) 1990
- Kasabanın Yarısı (Half of a Small Town) 1990
- Kara Pamuk (Black Cotton) 1990
- Bülbül Düdük (The Whistling Nightingale) 1990
Plays
- Hababam Sınıfı Uyanıyor (The Chaos Class Wakes Up) 1966
- Abbas Yolunda (Abbas goes his way) 1967
- Çatal Matal Oyunu (fork, knife, game) 1969
- Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı (The Chaos Class Remains Seated) 1971
- Çilli Horoz (The Speckled Rooster) 1971
Essays / memories
- Yokuş Yukarı (Uphill) 1982
- Nerede kalmıştık (Where did we go?) 1984
- Cart Curt (detours) 1984 / margin notes
- Kırk Yıl Önce Kırk Yıl Sonra (Forty Years Before - Forty Years Later) 1986 / Memoirs
Scripts
- Hababam sınıfı sınıfta kaldı. (1975) (novel)
- Hababam sınıfı. (1975) (novel)
- Hababam sınıfı uyanıyor. (1976) (novel "Hababam Sınıfı")
- Hababam sınıfı dokuz doğuruyor. (1978) (novel "Hababam Sınıfı")
- Hababam sınıfı güle güle . (1981) (novel)
- Karartma geceleri. (1990) (novel)
Awards
- 1982 Madarali novel prize for Yildiz Karayel
- 1982 Orhan Kemal Literature Prize for Yildiz Karayel
- 1987 Ömer Faruk Toprak poetry award for Ocak Katiri Alagöz
- 1993 Prize of the Writers' Union
Web links
- Literature by and about Rıfat Ilgaz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rifat Ilgaz
- Rıfat Ilgaz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ilgaz, Rifat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cide (Kastamonu Province, Turkey) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1993 |
| Place of death | Istanbul |