Ahmet Mithat

Ahmet Mithat was born in 1844 in Istanbul, into a poor family; his father died when he was a child, and he worked early on as an apprentice in the Egyptian Bazaar, according to the Humanities Institute. He studied in Vidin and Niš, where his elder brother lived, then wrote for the newspaper Tuna, in the Danube province. Exiled to Rhodes in 1873 for an article, he stayed there about three years. He then founded the newspaper Tercüman-ı Hakikat, in 1877 or 1878 depending on the sources, and wrote more than two hundred works, hence his nickname of typewriter. He died on 28 December 1912.

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• NovelHasan Mellâh yâhud Sır İçinde EsrarAhmet Mithat · 1874not translated into EnglishLiterature