Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil

Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil
Born	1867 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died	27 March 1945 (aged 78) Istanbul, Turkey
Occupation	Writer

Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil/Uşakizâde (Turkish: [ˈhalit ˈzija uˈʃaklɯɡil]; 1867 - 27 March 1945) was a Turkish author.

Biography

Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil was born in Istanbul in 1865. He went to primary school and then attended the secondary school Fatih Rustiyesi in the same city. His family moved to Izmir in 1879. He completed his secondary education in Izmir attending the school which now is known as Izmir Atatürk Lisesi. He later attended a Christian school to learn French where he completed his first translation works.

Uşaklıgil founded the newspaper Hizmet in 1886. After 1896 his works were published in the Turkish literary journal Servet-i fünûn, known for its adoption of European literary styles.

When his novel Kırık Hayatlar (Broken Lives) was censored by the Ottoman Regime in 1901 he stopped publishing novels. Broken Lives could only be published in 1923 after the creation of modern Turkey.

Uşaklıgil's early style is based closely on French Romanticism and most of his novels deal with unfulfilled love. His work is distinguished from contemporary Turkish literature by its more concrete form and creates its own artistic language through the use of Persian and Arabic loanwords.

In his later years the writer moved to the village of San Stefano near Istanbul. In 1926, when a new law imposed to give a Turkish name to each community, he suggested to give to the village its present name of Yeşilköy ("Green Village" in Turkish).

Bibliography

Novels

• Nemide (1889)
• Bir Ölünün Defteri (1889)
• Ferdi ve Şürekâsı (1894)
• Mai ve Siyah (1897)
• Aşk-ı Memnu (1900)
• Kırık Hayatlar (1923)

Short Stories

• Bir Muhtıranın Son Yaprakları (1888)
• Bir İzdivacın Tarih-i Muaşakası (1888)
• Heyhat (1894)
• Solgun Demet (1901)
• Sepette Bulunmuş (1920)
• Bir Hikâye-i Sevda (1922)
• Hepsinden Acı (1934)
• Onu Beklerken (1935)
• Aşka Dair (1936)
• İhtiyar Dost (1939)
• Kadın Pençesinde (1939)
• İzmir Hikâyeleri (1950) (posthumous)

Dramas

• Kabus (1918)
• Anı: Kırk Yıl (1936)
• Sara ve Ötesi (1942)
• Bir Acı Hikâye (1942)

Poetry

• Mensur Şiirler (1889)

Essays

• Sanata Dair (1938–1955) (three volumes)

Sources

• Tuna, Turgay (2004) (in Turkish). Ayastefanos'tan Yeşilköy'e. 

External links

• Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism - Biography of Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil (Turkish)
• Works by Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil on Open Library at the Internet Archive