Ömer Seyfettin

Died in 1920

Ömer Seyfettin was born on 11 March 1884 in Gönen, in the province of Balıkesir; his father was an officer. After leaving military school in 1903, he served in the Balkans, then in 1911 founded in Salonica, with two companions, a review that defended a Turkish language free of learned borrowings. Recalled for the Balkan War, he was taken prisoner by the Greeks at Yanya in 1913 and remained captive until the end of the year. A professor of literature in Istanbul from 1914, he died of diabetes in Istanbul on 6 March 1920.

In the catalogue 1

NovelYalnız EfeÖmer Seyfettin · 1918not translated into EnglishLiterature