Refik Halit Karay
Refik Halid Karay (born May 14, 1888 in Istanbul ; † July 18, 1965 there ) was an Ottoman-Turkish author.
Born into an Ottoman family of civil servants, he attended Galatasaray Mekteb-i Sultani and studied law there. In 1906/07 he broke off his studies to become a journalist. He wrote for various newspapers, especially under the pseudonym Kirpi for Kalem magazine . After the Young Turkish Revolution he was a brief minister. Because of his rejection of the dictatorial " Three Pashas ", he was exiled from 1913 to 1918 to the eastern provinces of the empire. He was a member of the Freedom and Unity Party . Also because of his rejection of the Turkish War of Independence , he was forced into exile in Aleppo and Beirut from 1922 to 1938 under the young Turkish Republic . After returning to Turkey, he wrote for the daily Tan .
Karay's novels depict the life of the "little people" in both Istanbul and Anatolia. While his style was initially influenced by Guy de Maupassant , he developed his own satirical style while in exile in Lebanon.
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Works
Novels
- İstanbul'un iç yüzü (The Inner Face of Istanbul, 1920)
- Yezidin Kızı (1939)
- Çete (1940)
- Nilgün (1950–1952)
- Bugünün Saraylısı (1954)
Short stories
- Memleket Hikayeleri (Tales from the Country, 1919)
- Gurbet Hikayeleri (1940)
literature
- O.Spies: Modern Turkish Literature . In: Handbook of Oriental Studies: Turkology . Brill, 1982, ISBN 90-04-06555-5 , pp. 359–360 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Louis Mitler: Contemporary Turkish Writers , Indiana University, Bloomington, 1988, pp. 150f
Web links
- Works in the Open Library
- Refik Halit Karay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography turkishculture.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karay, Refik Halit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Karay, Refik Halid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ottoman-Turkish author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1965 |
| Place of death | Istanbul |