Kemal Tahir
Novelist, Author
1910 – 1973
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Who was Kemal Tahir?
Kemal Tahir was a prominent Turkish novelist and intellectual. Tahir spent 13 years of his life imprisoned due to political reasons and wrote some of his most important novels during this time.
His most important novels include Esir Şehrin İnsanları, Devlet Ana and Yorgun Savaşçı, all in which Tahir uses historical background to support his characters and settings. Some of his novels were adapted into popular films. Tahir also wrote pulp fiction under pseudonyms for financial reasons.
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- Born
- Mar 13, 1910
Istanbul - Also known as
- Kemal Tahir Demir
- İsmail Kemalettin Demir
- Cemalettin Mahir
- Parents
- Spouses
- Fatma İrfan
(1937 - ) - Semiha Sıdıka Hanım
(1950 - 1973)
- Fatma İrfan
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire
- Profession
- Education
- Galatasaray High School
- Died
- Apr 21, 1973
Istanbul
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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